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EMBRACING 

NINE BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME 


















BOOK I. 

HOME 

AMUSEMENTS 




BOOK II. 

CHURCH 
ENTERTAINMENTS 




BOOK III. 

SCHOOL 
GAMES 






































BOOK IV. 

OUTDOOR 
SPORTS 




BOOK V. 

LITERARY 
GLEANINGS 

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BOOK VI. 

Miscellaneous En- 
tertainments for 
Clubs, Parties, Etc. 




















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BOOK VII. 

FUN FOR ALL 
OCCASIONS 




BOOK VIII. 

Dainty Work for 
Deft Fingers, or 
Boys' and Girls' 
Workshop 




BOOK IX. 

THE ART OF 
ATTAINMENT 


























The Whole Compbising a Chahming Collection of Games, Spobxs fob Health and 

Beauty, Instbuctive Amusements and Miscellaneous Helps fob Both 

Young and Old, fob the Home, the Chxjbch and the School 

By nelle m. mustain 

SUPERBLY EMBELLISHED WITH LIFE PHOTOGRAPHS POSED BY A LEADING TEACHER OF PHYSICAL CULTURE 





THE LIBRARY OF 
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Gopv^QH-^ENTRY 



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Copyright 1902 

BY 

LYMAN A. MARTIN 



INTRODUCTION 



/J^HILDREN need play. Young people need entertainment. Old people need 
%J recreation. Everybody needs it. They can work better and longer for having 
relaxed a little. Play gives rest from toil and aptitude for labor. It re-creates, 
strengthens and puts joy into life. 

There is an old tradition to the effect that when St. John the Apostle was on the 
Isle of Patmos, a hunter one day finding him in the forest playing with a tame bird, 
said : "I am surprised to find a holy apostle wasting his time in sport. It befitteth 
not thy calling." 

St. John replied to the hunter : "What holdest thou in thy hand ?" 

"A bow," said the hunter, "by which I earn my living." 

"But I see that the bow is unbent and the cord loosened. Of what use to thee 
is such a bit of wood and a string ? Where is the power in it to send an arrow to its 
mark?" 

"Knowest not," replied the hunter, "that if I kept the string tight and the bow 
bent all the while it would soon lose its power?" 

"Thou hast rightly answered," said the apostle, "and in answering me thou hast 
answered thyself concerning my bird and my sport. My bow must sometimes be un- 
strung." 

The story is most applicable, and in these days needs to be told over and over 
again. Overworked men and women, and overcrowded school children need to gain 
new power, new vitality. 

There is a difference in entertainment; some give excitement, but not recreation. 
Some exhaust the nervous system, kindle passion and deaden the brain. Others ele- 
vate, uplift and revitalize the system. We must distinguish between the two. Mod- 
erate and healthy outdoor and indoor recreations should always be encouraged. The 
aim of this book is to stimulate development in a physical, mental and moral way 
through proper recreations. The author through experience has seen the need of 
just such helps as are herein contained. 

No greater truth has been proclaimed than that of the old adage, "All work 

and no play makes Jack a dull boy." That the mind may be kept in tune, enabling 

it to produce the highest possible attainment, the body must be healthful and active. 

5 



6 INTRODUCTION 

Cheerfulness, usefulness and a good physique are man's most desirable attain- 
ments. Nothing is more productive in bringing this about than wholesome amuse- 
ment and judicious exercise. 

The object of this book is first to place before its readers a series of healthful 
recreations, amusements and helps, such as may be carried on with profit in the home. 
The center of all things is the home. Around it clusters the sweetest memories of 
life. From it come the strongest, deepest and most lasting impressions on the body 
and the soul. That subtle something that we all call character, so hard to define, so 
difficult to analyze, is but the crystallization of the varied influences of the home. 

The unique exercises for schools offered here produce a pleasing change from the 
daily routine. The volume contains nine books, each complete in itself. They are 
intended for all ages, all tastes and all nationalities. It is for the girl and boy, the 
young lady and young man, the grown woman and grown man. 

Our thanks are due to J. Ritchie Patterson, of the Western Avenue Epworth 
Bible Class of Chicago, and to the Superintendent of Moody's Sunday School, to the 
University of Chicago, to the Editors of The Youth's Companion, and many others 
whose helps have paved the way for the making of this volume. 

That it may be found helpful to all, rich and poor, is the wish of 

THE AUTHOR 




CONTENTS. 



BOOK I. 
HOME AMUSEMENTS. 



An Autobiography Social 13 

An Advertisement Social 15 

An All Fools' Social 16 

A Bachelor Sale 16 

A Bird Social 17 

A Beheading Party 17 

"Broken Heart" Social 18 

City Affair 19 

Curio Social 21 

Cat Social 22 

Carnival of Nations 22 

Date Social 22 

A Drawing Affair 23 

A Keunion of the People of Dickens. ... 23 

A Fete of Roses 24 

Flower Social 26 

Feather Social 28 

Feast of Fruit Pi 29 

Fine-Art Display 29 

Forest Social 30 

A Gold Social 31 

An Historical Social 32 

An Indoor Fishing Party 34 

A Japanese Social 34 

A Kodak Meet 34 

A Hallowe'en Social 35 

A Hard Times Social 36 

A Handy Affair 38 

A Jumble Social 39 

A Kodak Social 39 

A Literary Masquerade 39 

A May Day Social 41 



A Memory Social 43 

A North-Land Social 43 

An Old Time Social 44 

An "Old School" Social 44 

An Old Maid Auction 45 

A Patriotic Social 46 

A Poster Show 46 

A Periodical Social 47 

A Progressive Soap Bubble Party 47 

A Progressive Literary Social 47 

A Picture Show 49 

A Silhouette Social 50 

A Story Evening 50 

A Scissors Social 51 

A State Social 52 

A Thanksgiving Partv 53 

A Twenty-Five Cent Social 53 

A Vegetable Social 54 

A White Cap Social 54 

A Week Social 54 

An Easter Party for Children 55 

A Bean King's Festival 56 

An Exchange Party 57 

A Sunshine Luncheon 58 

A Unique Valentine Party 58 

An Evening With Shakespeare 59 

A February Dinner Party 60 

An Apple Blossom Luncheon 60 

A Browning Luncheon 61 

A Musical Medley 62 

Ping Pong, or Table Tennis 410 



GAMES FOR CHILDREN'S EVENING PARTIES. 



My Lady's Work-Box 62 

Bread and Butter 63 

Shopping 63 

Grunt 63 

A Book Carnival 63 

A Brownie Party 64 

A Bean Social 64 

A Spider-Web Social 65 

A Guess Social 65 

A Hidden Social 66 



A Nose Social 67 

Children's May Party 67 

A Mother Goose Social 67 

A Pretty Maid's Birthday Party 68 

A Progressive Puzzle Social 69 

A Treasure Social 70 

A Children's Valentine Party 70 

A United States Party for July Fourth. 70 

A Rummage Sale 72 



How Some Juniors Had Fun, 



72 






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CONTEXTS 



A Stars and Stripes Affair 73 

A Cupid Breakfast 74 

Social Life 75 



Afternoon Card Parties 

An Irish Social 

A "C" Social 



75 
76 
76 



EASILY PREPARED DAINTY DISHES FOR MISCELLANEOU SOCCA IONS. 



About the Table 77 

Some Menu Terms 78 

The Picnic Lunch Basket 79 

A Pretty Lot of Salads 81 

Dainty Eelishes 83 

New Ways of Using Common Fruits. ... 84 



Simple Dainty Desserts 85 

Hot Weather "Dainties 87 

A Dainty Bridesmaid Luncheon. 88 

Three February Cakes" 90 

The Fourth of July Picnic Lunch 91 

A Pretty Country Luncheon 92 



BOOK II. 



CHURCH ENTERTAINMENTS. 



A Yellow Tea 93 

Children's Day Exercises 93 

A Longfellow Fair 94 

Progressive Anatomy Social 95 

A Holiday Fete 96 

An Old Folks' Eeception 97 

Autumn Harvest Home 98 

Pillow and Bag Sale 98 

A Military Social 99 

Thanksgiving in the Church 101 

An Oriental Fete 102 

Easter Exercises 102 

A Ping Social 104 

A Cake Sale 105 

A Strawberry Eegale 106 

A College Fair 106 

Programme for a Missionary Meeting.. 108 

Christmas Exercise 109 

Temperance Exercise 110 

A Trio Social 112 

A Penny Social 113 

Some Talks on Decorating 114 

A Queer Tea-Party 115 

An India Social 115 

Illustrated Stereopticon Lectures 116 

A Box Bazaar 116 

An Antique Sale 117 

An [talian Social 117 

A Colonial Pete 118 

An Old-Time School Exhibition 119 



An Old-Time Husking Bee 120 

A Tree Festival , . 120 

A Church Birthday Fete 121 

A Contrast Social 122 

A Pine Social 122 

A Wheel Bazaar .' 123 

A Pink and White Festival 123 

A Salad Supper 124 

A Spring Opening . 125 

Nursery Bargain Counter 125 

A Successful Church Rally 126 

A Weekly Bazaar 127 

Baby Teas . 127 

A Corn Festival 128 

A Quilt Fair 129 

An Old-Fashioned Spelling-Bee 130 

A Forest Supper 131 

A Marine Social 131 

A Floral Love Tale 132 

Christmas Socials 133 

Weights and Ages 133 

A Poetical Social 134 

An Electric Social .135 

United States Mail 135 

Doublets 135 

Everything from a Nutshell 136 

The Key to Character 136 

Old Maids' Repair Shop 136 

German Socials 137 

A "Do Things Club" 137 



PLEASANT STORIES FOR STORMY SUNDAYS, 



As a Little Child 137 

Two Pictures Prom Life 137 

A Missionary Story 138 



Boys and Girls in Korea 139 

My Dog Paddy 139 

Fresh Air for Food 140 




"HUNT THE WHISTLE." 

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Buffalo Bill and the Children 140 

His Scheme 141 

Ole Bull 141 

Her Gift 141 



A Streak of Sunshine 142 

William and the Pink-Man 143 

The Test of Greatness 144 



book: hi. 

SCHOOL DEPARTMENT, 



An Autumn Exercise 145 

Autobiographies of Persons 146 

Arbor Day Programme 147 

A Day With "Robbie'' Burns 148 

Sketch of Life of Burns 149 

Bird Day 151 

The Owls' Reception Day 151 

A Christmas Exercise 153 

Christmas Gems From Dickens 154 

A Day with Eugene Field 154 

A Day with Carleton 156 

Closing Exercises for School 157 

City Enigmas 158 

Some Queer Names for People 158 

Enigmas for Boys and Girls 159 

Flag Day Exercise 159 

For Young Historians 161 

Flower Day 162 

Flower Voices 162 

Flower Quotations 164 

A Geographical Recreation 164 

Geographical Story 165 

A Day with Holmes . 166 

Oliver Wendell Holmes 167 

Historical Scenes 168 

Historical Poems 169 

A Day with Washington Irving 169 

Literary Recreation 171 

Lincoln Day Exercises 172 

Lincoln Day Exercise 172 

Longfellow Exercise 173 

Longfellow Day 174 

A Day with Lowell 175 

Biography of Lowell 177 

Memorial Day Exercise 178 



Memorial Day 179 

A Mid-Summer Exercise 180 

A Mid-Winter Exercise 181 

A New Year Exercise 182 

Printer's Pi for the Schoolroom 184 

A Presidential Exercise 184 

A Day with James Whitcomb Riley. . . .185 

A Statesman Exercise 187 

Schoolroom Enigmas 188 

Some Schoolroom Puzzles 189 

Springtime Exercise 190 

A State Exercise 191 

Some Schoolroom Games 191 

Thanksgiving Programme 193 

Thanksgiving Exercise 193 

Autumn Quotations 195 

A Washington Exercise 196 

Biography of Washington 196 

Whittier Programme 199 

Gleanings from Whittier 200 

ft. Day with Alfred Tennyson 201 

A Day with Alice Cary 202 

A Day with William Cullen Bryant 204 

A Day with Rudyard Kipling 206 

Inventors and Inventions 208 

Who Was Described As 208 

Literary Queries 208 

Who Is Meant In , 209 

Who Was the First 209 

Who Made Famous 209 

Seven Wonders of the World 209 

Seven Wonders of America 209 

Mottoes of the States 210 

Geographical Recreations 210 



BOOK IV. 
OUTDOOR GAMES. 



Lawn Hockey 213 

Curling 215 

Quoits 215 

Marbles 216 



Cricket 216 

Hare and Hounds 217 

Football 218 

Golf 219 



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CONTENTS 



Golf-Croquet 220 

Golf Don'ts 221 

Leap Frog 222 

Archery 222 

Hoops 223 

La Crosse 223 

Tether Ball ...224 

Bowls ......225 

Squash Ball 226 

Coursing 227 

Lawn Tennis 228 

Tally-Ho Coaching Parties 229 

Eoof Parties 229 

Base-Ball 229 

Croquet 230 

Balloon Tennis 231 

Here Goes Up for Monday 231 

Cat and Eat 232 

Summer Out of Doors 232 



A Camp Party 233 

A Hammock Picnic 234 

Black Man 235 

The Floral Porch Party 235 

Pigeon 236 

Widow 236 

A Trolley Party 236 

King William 237 

Ring Eound Eosy 237 

Green Gravel 237 

Pig in the Parlor 237 

A Pretty Lawn Fete 238 

A Moonlight Masquerade 238 

A Hay-Eick Party . . .239 

Basket Ball for Women 239 

Handball 240 

Game of Puff and Dart 243 

A New Game for Boys 244 



book: v. 

LITERARY SOCIETIES— HOW TO ORGANIZE AND CONDUCT THEM. 



Eules of Order and Parliamentary Pro- 
cedure 245 

Parliamentary Eules and Usages 248 

Poems Suitable for Literary Tableaux. .251 
Subjects for Discussion 253 



Subjects for Graduating Essays, Orations 
and Themes 253 

Beautiful Thoughts Gleaned from Many 
Sources 254 



CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS. 



Quotations 
Quotations 
Quotations 
Quotations 
Quotations 
Quotations 
Quotations 
Quotations 
Quotations 
Quotations 
Quotations 
Quotations 



from Ella Wheeler Wilcox. . .259 
from Margaret E. Sangster. .260 
from William Shakespeare. .261 

from Jean Ingelow 263 

from John Milton 264 

from Sir Walter Scott 265 

from Josiah Gilbert Holland.267 

from Bayard Taylor 268 

from Ealph Waldo Emerson. 269 
from William Wordsworth. .271 
from Thomas Buchanan Eead.272 
from William Cullen Bryant.274 



Quotations from Thomas Bailey Aldrich.275 

Quotations from Lord Byron 276 

Quotations from James Whitcomb Eiley.279 
Quotations from Oliver Wendell Holmes.281 
Quotations from James Eussell Lowell. .283 

Quotations from Eobert Burns 285 

Quotations from Louisa May Alcott 287 

Quotations from Paul Lawrence Dunbar.287 

Quotations from Thomas Moore 288 

Quotations from Alfred Tennyson. ... .290 

Quotations from Will Carleton 292 

Quotations from Alice Cary 293 



book: vi. 

A HIGH ORDER OF MISCELLANEOUS ENTERTAINMENTS FOR CLUBS, 

PARTIES, SOCIALS. 



Crossing Game 295 

0ame of Authors 299 

Historical Game or Queries for Bright 

Students 302 

Faiths of the World— What are They?. .316 



Nuts to Crack or Words that Breathe 

and Thoughts that Burn 324 

Delightful Bible Exercise 328 

What Famous Persons do the Following 
Objects Suggest 329 



CONTENTS 

book: vn. 

FUN FOR ALL. 



Candy Pulls 331 

Making Fudges 331 

A Maple Sugar-Off 331 

Pop Corn Balls — As an Entertainment. .332 

Shadow Games 332 

The Dancing "Nigger" 334 

Fun with a Piece of Lighted Candle. . .335 

Silhouettes 335 

Prize Game 336 

Balancing a Pencil 3-36 

Clever Tricks 336 

The Match Gun 337 

The Antics of the Camphor Scorpion. . .337 
To Make a Poll of Paper Go Up Hill. . .338 

To Test the Lungs 338 

Amusing Trick with Fire 338 



How to Guess Hidden Spots on Three 

Dice 339 

The Family Giant 339 

The Nondescript or Animated Telescope. 340 

"The What-Do-You-Think?" 341 

The Baby Elephant 342 

"The Canis Kemarkabillis, or Demon 

Dog" 343 

The Giraffe 343 

Half-A-Century of Conundrums 343 

Enigmas and Charades 345 

Charades 346 

Word Puzzle 347 

Piddles, No. 2 347 

Forfeits 347 

Pinning the Tail on the Donkey 352 



BOOK VIII. 
DAINTY WORK FOR DEFT FINGERS, OR BOYS' AND GIRLS' WORKSHOP. 



Drawn Work 353 

Greek Purse 354 

Purse (New Style) ; Crochet 355 

Crochet Counterpane 355 

Pompadour Bag 356 

Purse in Bead-Work 357 

The Work-Basket 359 

Vandyke Collar 360 



Collar in Guipure Embroidery 361 

Initial Wreath 362 

Embroidery Border 362 

Comic Patchwork 362 

Work-Box 364 

Pyrography, Burnt Wood 364 

Spectacle Case 366 



book: ix. 



THE ART OF ATTAINMENT. 



Tri- Weekly Exercises 367 

To Bring About a Good Figure 367 

Breathing for Health and Beauty 370 

Poisons of Tobacco and Alcohol 371 

How to Acquire a Gentle Voice 372 



How to Wash the Face 374 

How to Massage the Body . 376 

To Preserve the Hair 377 

For Stained Teeth 378 



DEPARTMENT OF ETIQUETTE. 



Introductions 378 

Acknowledging an Introduction 379 

Introductions in Public 380 

Letters of Introduction 380 

Models for Notes of Introduction 380 

How to Present a Note of Introduction.. 381 



A Card of Introduction 381 

Cards and Their Uses in Society 381 

Proper Titles 381 

Widow's Card .382 

Divorced Woman's Card 382 

Use of Junior and Senior 382 



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ILLUSTRATIONS 



Young Lady's Card 382 

Visiting Cards for Men 382 

Titles on Men's Cards 383 

Cards Used in Social Functions 383 

Some Phrases Used in Society ... .389 

Calls 389 

Table Manners 390 

Don'ts for Diners 390 

Dinners 390 

Invitations to Less Ceremonious Dinners.391 

Answering a Dinner Invitation 391 

A Successful Dinner Party 392 

The Table 392 

Serving 392 

Simple Dinners 393 

Order of Precedence 393 

Luncheons and Breakfasts 393 

A Formal Luncheon 395 

The Menu 395 

The Breakfast Party 395 

Visiting and House Parties 395 

Forms of Invitations to House Parties. .395 
The Formal House Party 396 



The Guest Chamber 396 

Welcoming Visitors 397 

The Ideal Guest 397 

THE LANGUAGE OF THE HAND. .398 

Pose 399 

Color of the Hand 399 

Texture and Flexibility 399 

Seven Types of Hands 400 

The Four Formations of Finger Tips.. 400 
Health as Indicated by Finger Nails. . . .401 

Disposition as Shown by the Nails 401 

Joints of the Fingers 401 

Length of Fingers \ 402 

The Thumb 402 

Three Divisions of the Hand 402 

The Seven Types Indicated by the 

Mounts 402 

Predisposition to Marriage of the Seven 

Types 405 

The Lines on the Hand 406 

The Language of Flowers. 408 

Birds That Live in Poems 409 






FULL-PAGE HALF-TONE ILLUSTRATIONS 



Portrait — Nelle M. Mustain. 

The Modern Hoop Game (Frontispiece) 

Hunt the Whistle. 

"If You Love Me," etc. 

Miss Columbia. 

A Dickens Social. 

The Fete of Roses. 

A Kodak Meet. 

A Church Social — Japanese. 

A Hard Time Social. 

A Literary Masquerade. 

An Indoor May-Day Party. 

A North-land Social. 

Johnny Brown. 

Auction Social. 

A Soap Bubble Party. 

Each Day in the Week. 

The Lullabies. 

Little Bo Peep. 

Cupid. 

True Patriotism. 

John Alden and Priscilla. 

Christ is Risen. 

The Wandering Musicians. 



Hi Holler. 

An Old Time Husking Bee. 

Christmas Morning. 

Flag Day Exercise. 

After Departure of John Alden. 

Father Time and the New Year. 

A Thanksgiving Social. 

The American Foot Ball Game. 

The Game of Leap Frog. 

National Game of Canada. 

Gypsy Picnic Party. 

An Olympian Game. 

Throwing the Discus. 

Getting Ready for the Race. 

The College Athlete. 

A Good Tennis Player. 

How to Be Pretty and Strong. 

Ball Exercise. 

Hoop Exercise. 

Foot Ball Game — English. 

Ping Pong. 

Physical Culture — Morning Exercise. 

Physical Culture — Body Exercise. 

Physical Culture; — Muscle Exercise. 

Physical Culture — Arm Exercise. 



BOOK I 



HOME AMUSEMENTS 



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AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY SOCIAL. 

I HIS entertainment is especially 
adapted to a Teachers' Heading 
Circle, or any body of literary students. 
A pretty idea is to seat the guests around 
a table in the old "round table" style. 
Little souvenir cards may be prepared for 
each guest, bearing the name and date of 
meeting on one side and on the reverse 
some suitable quotation; in selecting the 
quotations they should be closely akin to 
the subject of the evening as the subjects 
selected for the autobiographies will 
doubtless be persons of renown, then quo- 
tations bearing on the nobility of life 
should be selected, as — 

"The heights of great men gained and 
kept, 
Were not attained by sudden night." 
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 

"True worth is in being, not seeming, 
In doing each day that goes by, 
Some little of good not in dreaming 
Of great things to do by and by." 
— Alice Cary. 
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"True hearts are more than coronets, 
And simple faith than Norman blood." 
— Alfred Tennyson. 

Knives of great men all remind us, 
Nq may make our lives sublime." 



"To thine own self be true, 
Then will it follow as the day, the night, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man." 
— Wm. Shakespeare. 

"I'll tread a righteous path ; a good report 
Makes men live long, although their lives 
be short." — James Watkins. 

"Unblemished let me live, or die unknown ; 
Oh grant me honest fame, or grant me 



none. 



— Alexander Pope. 



"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I 
have tried to do well." 

— Chas. Dickens. 

"Trust in thine own untried capacity, 
As thou wouldst trust in God himself." 
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 

"Thus at the flaming forge of life 
Our fortunes must be wrought; 
Thus on each sounding anvil shaped, 
Each burning deed and thought." 
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 



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There is nothing so kingly as kindness, 
And nothing so royal as truth." 

— Alice Cary. 



"Life is real, life is earnest, 
And the grave is not its goal." 

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 

"We build the ladder by which we rise 
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, 
And we mount its summit round by 
round." — Josiah Gilbert Holland. 



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AN AUTOBlOaRAPHY SOCIAL. 






AUTOBIOGRAPHIES. 



When I was a little boy I was very fond 
of animals and out-door life, but was not 
in love with school. I enjoyed playing 
jokes and the result was that the neigh- 
bors said I needed some severe doses of 
"hickory oil." When I was twelve years 
old I began working in a newspaper office. 
My home was in the "sunny South," and 
I had many friends among the colored 
people; I made the acquaintance of one 
old uncle, who told me most wonderful 
stories of animals, which stories I have 
reproduced in book form for the children 
all over our land. — Joel Chandler Harris. 

I was born a Hoosier. My relatives tell 
me that I was a very handsome child, 
with white hair and the biggest freckles 
that the air and sunshine could produce. 
My father, who was a lawyer, was very 
proud of his handsome son ; he could not 
wait for me to grow old enough to don 
trowsers, so he bought the material and 
cut and made me a suit of clothes, trow- 
sers and all, himself. He then carried me 
away to the court-room where my appear- 
ance created much merriment among the 
lawyers, who nick-named me "Judge 
Wick." I was very fond of sitting in 
court and hearing the country people give 
evidence in their queer dialect. I learned 
to imitate their speech and have since 
learned to write it in poetical form. — 
James Whitcomb Riley. 

I am also a Hoosier. As a child I had 
very poor health, and my life was full of 
hard work. My father died when I was 
very small, thus I was forced early in life 
to make my own living. I drifted west 
as far as Minnesota, and there began the 
life of a lumberman, in order to regain my 
lost health. Drifting farther west 1 fin- 
ally adopted the profession of a Methodist 
minister, walking over the wide Kansas 
prairies holding services in school-houses. 
Tn later years I became an author, devot- 
ing most of my time to books for boys and 
girls. — Edward Eggleston. 



I am going to tell the story of a good 
little boy (I was the boy). One day this 
little boy, who lived in the wild west, was 
told by his mother to whitewash the fence. 
Now, he did not like to work but he knew 
that resistance was in vain, so he set to 
work. As is the custom in small towns all 
the boys of his set gathered around to 
watch him work. He told them that white- 
washing a fence was the greatest fun in 
the world, but that not many people could 
do so difficult a task. The result was that 
every boy wanted to try whitewashing that 
fence, but the little bad boy pretended 
that they could not do the work. Finally 
they began to purchase the privilege of 
whitewashing that fence and the little bad 
boy, when he had secured all the marbles, 
pocket-knives and other things that boys 
generally own and treasure, climbed up on 
the fence and munched apples while he 
watched those boys do his work. — Mark 
Twain (Sam. L. Clemens). 

I was reared a farmer's son and soon 
learned to perform all the tasks that a 
farm-boy is supposed to do. I never had 
the advantage of a fine education, but em- 
braced such opportunities as I had. My 
mother was a very entertaining hostess, 
consequently we had many guests, whom 
she entertained largely with stories of 
pioneer days. As a boy I was fond of 
reading and devoured every book that fell 
into my hands. I adopted the profession 
of journalism and finally verged into writ- 
ing. My work is largely poetical. — 
John Greenleaf Whittier. 

As a child I was reared in poverty, so 
far as money is concerned, but I was rich 
in love and sympathy, for I had the dear- 
est "Marmee" in all the wide world. We 
had very gay times at home, my three 
sisters and myself. We acted plays which 
I wrote and you may be sure that they were 
very wild and weird ones. When I was 
fifteen years old I held a school in an old 
unused barn. I was fond of writing sto- 
ries and reading them to my family, my 



AN ADVERTISEMENT SOCIAL. 



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mother always encouraging me in this 
work by her loving words. As I grew older 
1 began writing these stories in book form, 
principally for boys and girls. During the 
great Civil War I became a hospital nurse, 
and much enjoyed relieving the sufferings 
of our gallant soldier boys. — Louisa M. 
Alcott. 

I was born in a seaport town in one of 
the New England states. I was fond of 
the sea and the boats, for this was about 
the only amusement we had. I remember 
when I was a boy of seventeen, Gen. La- 
fayette visited our town; the Governor 
gave a ball in his honor, but when the 
evening came a fierce rain-storm was rag- 
ing, there were but few carriages in the 
town, and most of the guests were forced 
to stay at home. Dancing was prohibited 
by law in our town. An enterprising 
citizen built a theater, but theater-going 
was voted down in the town meeting and 
the theater building was converted into a 
church. I was fond of reading, and, like 
all children, I had a favorite book; this 
book was "The Sketch Book" by Wash- 
ington Irving. I was sent to college, and 
afterward became a teacher in a college. I 
went abroad several times, and finally de- 
voted my entire time to writing. — Henry 
Wadsworth Longfellow. 

I was born in the state of New York, 
but very early in life decided that I wished 
to know what lay beyond the great "Father 
of Waters;" consequently I departed on 
an investigating tour when but seventeen 
years of age; I became in turn adven- 
turer, miner, school-teacher and express- 
messenger. I finally adopted journalism 
as my profession, and after several years' 
experience on western periodicals, I re- 
turned to my boyhood home, New York 
city, where I am now located. — Bret 
Harte. 

My father was a printer ; I learned the 
trade. Next I began writing short articles 
for our paper, both prose and verse. I 



was at one time U. S. Consul at Venice. 
My wife is the sister of a famous sculptor. 
—W. D. Eowells. 

The above autobiographies are merely 
suggestive; each member of the circle 
should have his work prepared before com- 
ing to the meeting. The autobiographies 
are read separately and then each member 
in turn names the person represented. 
This idea may be carried out by describing 
countries, cities, historical characters, etc., 
thus becoming a very useful exercise for 
the school-room as well as the home. 



AN ADVERTISEMENT SOCIAL. 

NEW and striking evening's enter- 
tainment is an Advertisement So- 
cial. One who contemplates giving this 
social should at once begin the collecting 
of a variety of advertisements by search- 
ing old newspapers, magazines and period- 
icals of all kinds. After having selected 
the pictures trim the edges so that no 
words of the advertisement remain, then 
mount the pictures on strong cardboard. 
Each picture should be numbered in large 
and distinct figures that they may be plain- 
ly visible from their position on the wall. 
Now make a complete list of the adver- 
tisements according to number and give 
title of each as art catalogues are prepared. 
Next provide sufficient cards for the guests, 
one for each guest, numbered like the cat- 
alogue but with -name omitted. 

The mounted advertisements should be 
hung on the walls as artistically as pos- 
sible; the room should be perfectly 
lighted. 

Now take smaller ads. and cut them into 
pieces, not too small, but in very irregular 
shapes; pin each separate, advertisement 
together and put in a basket. There 
should be one of these cut-up ads. for each 
guest. Select one of your finest ads., 
mount on large sheet, and lay aside ; you 
will have use for it later in the evening. 

When the guests arrive provide each 



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AN ALL FOOLS' SOCIAL. 



with a pencil and one of the cards recently 
numbered, and the entertainment is ready 
to begin. 

The game is for each guest to write the 
name of the article advertised according 
to the number. A merry and perplexing 
time will be the result. Although nearly 
all the pictures will appear familiar, yet 
few will remember what article they ad- 
vertised. When the lists are completed a 
prize (a pretty poster) should be given the 
most successful contestant. 

Now for the "cut-up" ads. The guests 
are seated around the table and the ads. 
distributed. These must be placed in their 
original form ; the time should be limited 
to three minutes for this work. Some 
amusing trifle should be provided for the 
least successful contestant. 

Next for the large mounted ad. laid 
away some time ago; it is placed before 
the guests and each asked to write an ad- 
vertisement suitable for the picture, from 
any subject they may choose; limit the 
time to five minutes, then have the ads. 
read; the result will be much merriment. 

The invitation cards may bear this in- 
scription : 

You're bidden to attend an advertisement 

treat, 
Where, you will learn to your delight of 

things good to eat, 
And things to wear, and other things too 

numerous to mention. 
We trust unto this little note you'll give 

most kind attention. 



AX ALL FOOLS' SOCIAL. 

j^HIS should be made the occasion for 
D pure and simple fun, only lively 
games being admissible. 

First, suspend an apple from a hook in 
the center of the ceiling ; the string should 
be of rubber. Tie the hands behind the 
back and bite the apple ( ?). This will 
seem an easy task, until it has been tried. 
Second, place a lighted candle on a 



table; blindfold a guest, turn him three 
times around to confuse him on direc 
tions, then tell him to blow out the candle. 
This will be found most amusing. 

Tie the hands again, take a dime and 
place it firmly in the center of the fore- 
head, press hard, then deftly remove the 
dime. Now command him to shake the 
head three times and remove the dime, 
though the shaking* may be most vigorous 
the dime will yet seem to cling. 

The old favorite "Hunt the Whistle" 
will be found adaptable to this evening: 
Choose a person who has never seen the 
game played. Place him in the center of 
the room ; the remaining guests now form 
a circle around him ; show him the whistle 
and tell him that it is to be hidden in the 
ring; blindfold him while the whistle is 
being hidden. During the time he is being 
blindfolded some person quietly fastens the 
whistle to the back of coat, by a string to 
which is attached a crooked pin. The ban- 
dage is removed s^d he is told to hunt 
the whistk Whij he is searching, some 
person behind slips quiet±y lorward and 
blows the whistle; this is continued until 
it is discovered. 

Suspend an odd-shaped bundle, formed 
by wrapping paper together in an odd 
way, from the chandelier; now let each 
guest make a guess as to what the bundle 
contains, no one being allowed to touch 
same. After all have registered a guess, 
the bundle is unwrapped, and in its center 
is found a tiny box ; on opening the box a 
slip of paper is found, bearing the words 
"An April Fool." 

A sleight-of-hand performer would be 
a suitable addition to this evening's enter- 
tainment. 



A BACHELOR SALE. 

HIS bachelor sale may be made a 
very amusing evening's entertain- 
ment. Bachelors from every walk and 
vocation of life should be in evidence — 
butchers, bakers, tailors, dudes, bankers, 




"MISS COLUMBIA." 

A character represented at a unique costume party. 

(For description of party see page 22.) 




THE CHARLES DICKENS SOCIAL. 
(For description of this unique affair see page 23.) 






A BIRD SOCIAL. 



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musicians, long bachelors, short bachelors, 
fat bachelors and lean bachelors. 

A ready talker should be chosen as auc- 
tioneer; every bachelor should mount the 
block, a raised platform, while his good 
qualities are made known to the prospect- 
ive purchaser. 

The young ladies of the party should be 
dressed to represent very, very old maids, 
and should bid frantically on every old 
bachelor offered for sale. The price paid 
should be in peanuts, one peanut being 
equivalent to a dollar, the bachelor being 
"knocked down" to the lady producing the 
greatest number of peanuts. 

After the sale paper and pencils are 
provided the ladies, and they are required 
to write for the space of ten minutes pa- 
pers from assigned subjects, as "How to 
Train a Husband/' "Do Bachelors Re- 
quire Careful Feeding?" "At What Age 
Should a Bachelor Marry," etc. At the 
expiration of the ten minutes these papers 
are thrown in a basket, thoroughly mixed 
and passed to the bachelors, each of whom 
takes one, which he reads aloud. 

The ladies have provided dainty boxes 
containing luncheon for two; these serve 
as refreshments for themselves and their 
newly acquired property. 

After luncheon a series of shadow pic- 
tures may be arranged, portraying the 
"Joys and Miseries of a Bachelor Exist- 
ence." 



A BIRD SOCIAL. 

©N the walls should be displayed num- 
bered pictures of twenty different 
species of birds, characteristic of our cli- 
mate ; the names should be omitted. (Beau- 
tiful colored plates of birds may be ob- 
tained from Birds and All Nature, pub- 
lished by Monfort Co., Chicago.) Pencils 
and paper are given the guests, and they 
are requested to record the names of the 
birds according to number; twenty min- 
utes are given to complete the lists. At the 
end of this time a correct list is read and 
all lists are checked by it. 



Some pretty bird songs may next be in- 
troduced, after which the following list 
of Hidden Birds is distributed, the 
guests being asked to search for the caged 
birds : 

1 — The path through the meadow leads 

to the mill. (Owl.) 
2 — Are all arks built alike? (Lark.) 
3 — How rents have advanced! (Wren.) 
4 — Oh awkward boy, how could you be 

so careless? (Hawk.) 
5 — Did they rob in daylight? (Robin.) 
6 — Have you read Gulliver's Travels ? 

(Gull.) 
7 — She looks wan and pale. (Swan.) 
8 — He hath rushed away in silence. 

(Thrush.) 
9 — The crown and glory of life is char- 
acter. (Crow.) 
10 — He broke the reed in half -inch 

lengths. (Finch.) 
11 — He swallowed the medicine easily. 

(Swallow.) 
12 — I made known to her a venerable 

friend of mine. (Raven.) 
13 — Do venture a little farther. (Dove.) 
14 — I met her on the beach. (Heron.) 
15 — Does the pup love Ruth? (Plover.) 
16 — This song will be a glee. (Eagle.) 
17 — Maj. Ayers is a handsome man. 

(Jay.) 

18 — The celebration began at dawn. 

(Daw.) 
19 — He found in grammar tiny words for 

great uses. (Martin.) 
20 — Can a rye field produce such sorrow ? 

( Canary. ) 
A paraphrase of Longfellow's beautiful 
poem "The Birds of Killingworth" may 
be read, while a vocalist may render the 
"Jenny Lind Bird Song." 



A BEHEADING PARTY. 

I HE invitations should be cards cut 
in the form of tiny hatchets, bearing 
the following words : 

"Come Thursday evening just at dark 
And join in our beheading lark." 



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A "BROKEN HEART' SOCIAL. 



On arrival each person is given pencil 
and paper, together with the following 
type-written list, which he is asked to be- 
head, twenty minutes being allowed for the 
"bloody deed." 
1 — Behead a body of water and leave a 

bird. 
2 — Behead a bird and leave a vessel. 
3 — Behead a grain and leave a cooling 

substance. 
4 — Behead an animal and leave a grain. 
5 — Behead an article of furniture and 

leave a covering of animals. 
6 — Behead an animal and leave an organ 

of the body. 
7 — Behead a disfigurement of the human 
body and leave a means of trans- 
portation. 
8 — Behead a part of a fruit and leave a 

metal. 
9 — Behead a heavenly body and leave a 
roamer of the sea. 
10 — Behead a vegetable and leave an in- 
toxicating beverage. 
11 — Behead a drinking utensil and leave 

a female. 
12 — Behead a small talk and leave an 

article of wearing apparel. 
13 — Behead a punishment and leave a 

portion of a tree. 
14 — Behead a musical instrument and 

leave a musical instrument. 
15 — Behead a portion of the human body 

and leave a tier. 
16 — Behead a part of a building and leave 

the whole of everything. 
17 — Behead a portion of anything and 

leave an accomplishment. 
18 — Behead a term of endearment and 
leave, a portion of the human body. 
19 — Behead to twist and leave an article 

of jewelry. 
20 — Behead a wild cry and leave a child's 
plaything. 



KEY TO ABOVE. 



1 — Brook. 
2— Lark. 
3— Rice. 



4 — Goat. 
5— Chair. 
6— Bear. 



7 — Scar. 

8— Core. 

9— Star. 
10— Cale. 
11— Glass. 
12— Chat. 
13— Flog. 



14— Flute. 
15 — Brow. 
16— Hall. 
17— Part. 
18— Dear. 
19 — Wring. 
20— Whoop. 



After the lists are completed, they are 
corrected and honorable mention given the 
person having the most nearly correct list. 
The guests may now be asked to compose 
lists, which are exchanged, and thus the 
beheading continues. 



A "BROKEN HEART" SOCIAL. 

I HIS social is designed for St. Valen- 
tine day. The rooms should be deco- 
rated with hearts cut from fancy paper, all 
colors and sizes. They may be used in 
many ways — a frieze above the picture 
molding, stretched on invisible wires from 
the chandelier to the four corners of the 
room, and in every nook and corner. The 
table may bear a center-piece, heart- 
shaped, composed of flowers and foliage. 
Tiny heart-shaped menu cards, bearing the 
old couplet, 

"If you love me as I love you, 
No knife can cut our love, in two," 

are prepared for each guest. 

Let the amusements as well as the deco- 
rations be ."hearty." Get a quantity of 
the so-called candy "hearts," those with 
mottoes; now divide each heart into two 
parts, and lay on separate trays; when 
ready to serve refreshments, pass these 
trays, one to the ladies, the other to the 
gentlemen. Each gentleman by finding 
the remaining portion of his "heart" will 
know whom he is to escort to refreshments. 
For other amusements, cut an immense 
heart out of rather stiff paper and tack it 
firmly upon the wall ; next cut a quantity 
of tiny arrows from the same paper. Now 
blindfold a guest, turn him three times 
around to confuse him on directions and 
tell him to place the arrow in the center 



"J. CITY AFFAIR." 



19 



of the heart; the arrow will, perhaps, be 
on the opposite wall when he is relieved 
of his bandage. 

Next have a "Fishing for Hearts.'' Be- 
hind a screen or piano a person is secreted 
with innumerable little paper hearts be- 
fore him — one lot for the ladies, the other 
for the gentlemen ; on these hearts has been 
written a "fortune" for each guest. A 
pole and line, with a bent pin for a hook, 
is provided for the fisher, who stands some 
distance in front of the piano, and casts 
over his line. The hostess should call each 
fisher's name distinctly, that the hidden 
person may know whether the fisher is a 
lady or gentleman. The fisher is told 
that when the fish bites he is to pull in 
the line; the secreted person fastens the 
hook in the heart, then gives the line a 
twitch, and up it goes; the fisher then 
reads his future to the party. These for- 
tunes should be as amusing as possible — 
thus: 

"You will marry a woman whose hair is 
red; 
Then often and often you'll wish you 
were dead." 

"A doctor you'll marry, who cures many 
ills, 
And he will compel you to sort all his 

pills." 

"You're doomed to endure a bachelor's 
woes, 
To cook your own meals and darn your 
own hose." 

"Twice will you marry, and happy you'll 

I Sitting by a cozy fire, drinking cold tea." 

"A bachelor maid is your lot in life, 
And you'll tell other women how to be 'a 
good wife.' " 

"You will wed two women, the first one 

I will die; 

The other will make you go on the 'fly.' " 



"You have an ambition to be President 
some day, 
But it takes a 'brainy' man to go thai 
way." 

"You'll be an old 'maid' and keep a fat cat 
That will sleep in your band-box with 
your best hat." 

"You'll be a book-agent and call at each 
door, 
While the ladies cold water on you will 
pour." 

"You'll have for your future plenty of 
gold, 
And a husband to spend it, flashing and 
bold." 

"In your future I see pangs that will hurt; 
Your heart will be broken by a young 
flirt." 

"You'll be a widower and live at your 
ease, 
With twelve little children to fret and to 
tease." 

"You'll be a politician, and run a whole 
ward, 
And many good things in life you'll af- 
ford." 

"You'll be a policeman and boss a whole 
street, 
And the woman you marry you'll find 
hard to 'beat.' " 

"You'll marry a girl and live with her 
'ma,' ' 
And she will make known to you points 
of the law." 



"A CITY AFFAIR." 

"CITY AFFAIR" is a sort of an 
enigma social; everything is dis- 
guised, and yet when the mysteries are un- 
raveled we find but simple, commonplace 
cities are the result. 

On entering the rooms where the social 



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"A CITY AFFAIRS 



was being held we were handed two cards, 
one designated No. 1, the other No. 2; 
each of these cards bore a list of numbers 
from one to twenty. Next we were 
ushered to a table where we found all sorts 
of things, which, we were informed, rep- 
resented as many cities; each article was 
numbered. Here is the list: 

1 — A small pebble. 

2 — A shallow dish of salt water, sunken 

in a dish of earth. 
3 — A bottle of perfume. 
4 — A bell tied by a slender cord to a 

pencil. 
5 — A can, with a bit of paper marked 

2,000 pounds pasted on it. 
6 — A small piece of Bristol board. 
7— A doll's sofa. 
8 — An orange, with a large E fastened 

upon it. 
9 — A flint rock. 
10 — A peanut shell. 

11 — A key placed upon a slip of paper 
upon which was written the word 
"West." 
12 — A fine straw hat. 
13 — A roll of common brown wrapping 

paper. 
14 — A new Noah's ark. 
15 — A number of periodicals. ' 
16 — A cigar. 
17 — A bit of red pepper. 
18 — A portion of a Brussels carpet. 
19 — A portrait of Washington. 
20 — A sprig of elm. 

We were allowed thirty minutes to com- 
plete the list. The correct list was then 
read, as follows : i 



1 — Little Rock. 
2— Salt Lake. 
3 — Cologne. 

4— Belfast, 

5 — Canton. 

6 — Bristol. 
7 — Davenport. 
8— 

9— Flint, 
10— IlulL 



East Orange. 



11— Key West. 
12 — Leghorn. 
13— Manila. 
14 — Newark. 
15 — Beading. 
1 — Havana. 
17 — Cayenne. 
1 8 — Brussels. 
1 9 — Washington. 
20 — Elmwood. 



PART II. 

We were now handed written slips of 
paper, containing another sort of disguised 
cities. Here is the list: 
1 — Result of contact with fire. 
2 — A city used on a handkerchief. 
3 — An organ of the human body and a 

small body of water. 
4 — Harmony. 
5 — To wander. 
6 — Part of a vessel. 
7 — A weekly duty and 2,000 pounds. 
8 — An instrument, used by musicians 

and a cosmetic. 
9 — A German statesman. 
10 — Twenty-four hours and a great weight. 
11 — A boy's name and a military post. 
12— Part of a fowl. 
13 — Fierce carnivorous animals. 
14 — A daily duty. 
15 — A wild animal and to cross water 

without bridges. 
16 — A stream of water and a species of 

tree. 
17 — The Lord's supper and an exclama- 
tion. 
18— -A martyr president. 
19— The "Hero of New Orleans." 
20 — Not old and a landing place for ves- 
sels. 
The key to the above was as follows : 
1— Berne. 11 — Frankfort. 

2 — Cologne. 12 — Brest. 

3 — Liverpool. 13 — Lyons. 

4— -Concord. 14 — Bath. 

5 — Rome. 1 5 — Hartford. 

6— Hull. 1 6— Brooklyn. 

7 — Washington. 17 — Sacramento. 
8 — Baton Rouge. 18 — Lincoln. 
9 — Bismarck. 19 — Jackson. 

10 — Dayton. 20 — Newport. 

The remainder of the evening was de- 
voted to charades, all charades acted being 
names of cities. 

Charade No. 1 — Several handsomely 
dressed ladies appeared, each intently 
studying a journal of fashion. Some lady 
in the room immediately exclaimed 
"Paris," and thus it proved to be. 



A CURIO SOCIAL. 



21 



Next a gentleman entered, seated him- 
self at a table and began to study a bill 
of fare ; soon a waiter appeared, the gen- 
tleman spoke to him in a low tone and he 
disappeared; he soon reappeared bearing 
a bean-pot. This was Boston. 

A young girl now appeared wearing a 
man's waistcoat and hat. This we learned, 
after much conjecture, was Galveston. 

Xow appeared a trio of men dressed as 
butchers and carrying huge knives and 
saws. This was interpreted as Chicago. 

Next appeared a man carrying a grip; 
he was followed by one, two, yes, half a 
dozen women, each of which seemed to be 
trying- to get nearest him. This was Salt 
Lake City. 

A young girl now appeared, an Ameri- 
can flag artistically draped around her, 
while she carried flags of other nations. 
This was interpreted as Washington. 

Several frail-looking ladies were next 
ushered in, wearing shawls and loose- 
flowing robes ; they lounged on chairs and 
sofas, while maids appeared bearing gob- 
lets, buckets and bowls of steaming water. 
This was Hot Springs. 

A lady muffled to the ears in furs, and 
yet shivering as if cold, was St. Petersburg. 

A young lady attired as a cook, with 
flour on face, hands and clothing, was 
Minneapolis. 

A half-dozen young ladies dressed in 
loose robes, hair dressed high and wearing 
innumerable little fans in it, seated on 
cushions drinking tea from tiny cups, was 
Tokio. 

A boy wearing a number of watches and 
offering others for sale was Waterbury. 

A young gallant dressed as a wandering 
cavalier and bearing a guitar in his hand, 
while he warbled snatches of love songs, 
was Venice. 



A CURIO SOCIAL. 



fHIS social is especially pleasing to 
those persons who are greatly inter- 
ested in collections of curios. A long table 
or numerous small ones should be provided 



for the display of the objects of interest. 

Every article having a history of any 
sort is admissible, and the contributor b» m 
expected to give this history in the fo. om _ 
of an interesting story. j t 

Good music should be provided, a^ e or 
short programme may be carried out.^ r we 
offer the following suggestive progra ime * n 

1— Song, "Auld Lang Syne."— lit. 

Burns. r>re- 

2 — Eeading, "How Dolly Madison Save'iU 

the Declaration of Independence." 
3— Song, "The Old Oaken Bucket."— 

Sam. Woodworth. 
4 — Kecitation, "My Mother's Bible." — 

Anon. 
5— Recitation, "The Old Arm Chair."— 

Eliza Cook. 
6 — Song, "The Suwannee River." — 

Stephen C. Foster. 
7— Reading, "The Old Clock on the 

Stairs." — Henry W. Longfellow. 
8 — Old-Time Quotations, by the Guests. 
9— Pen Picture— An Old-Time Parlor. 
10— Song, "A Song of Long Ago." 

"OLD QUOTATIONS." 

"Oh, for festal dainties spread 
Like my bowl of milk and bread — 
Pewter spoon and bowl of wood, 
On the door-stone, gray and rude." 
— John G. Whittier. 

"The old schoolhouse is altered now; its 
benches are replaced 
By new ones, very like the same our pen- 
knives had defaced ; 
But the same old bricks are in the wall, 

the bell swings to and fro, 
Its music just the same, dear Tom, 'twas 
twenty years ago," — Anon. 

"I love it, I love it, 
And who shall dare 
To chide me for loving 
That old arm-chair ?" 

— Eliza Cook. 

"These and the little house where I was 
born, 
Low and little and black and old, 



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A CAT SOCIAL. 



With children many as it can hold." 

— Alice Cary. 

eactm the weather-worn house on the 

from brow of the hill 

usher e are dwelling afar, in our man- 

of thii hood, to-day; 

resent© see the old gables and hollyhocks 

numberstill, 

they looked long ago ere we wan- 
1~~ dered away. 7 ' 



A CAT SOCIAL. 



HIS entertainment is a "Show" and 
"Social" combined. Every guest 
owning a pet cat is requested to bring it 
to this social; also to provide a written 
history of its life, so far as it is known. 
These histories should be made as amusing 
as possible, and form one part of the. even- 
ing's entertainment, being read by the 
proud owners. 

Next a Cat game is played, as follows : 
Some guest is chosen as "Kitty" ; this 
guest now kneels before some person and 
utters a plaintive little "meou" ; the person 
must then pat "Kitty" on the head and 
say "Poor Kitty !" This is repeated three 
times, and if the "Kitty" succeeds in mak- 
ing the guest laugh, this guest in turn be- 
comes the "Kitty." 

Now provide pencils and paper, and 
give the following list of Queer Poetical 
Cats, to be deciphered by each guest : 
There's a cat very good for food, 'tis said, 
And a cat marks the resting place of the 

dead; 
There's a cat that makes a discordant 

sound, 
And a cat that is made to scatter round. 
There's a cat that crawls beneath our feet, 
And a cat whose movements are quick and 

fleet; 
There's a cat that blanches our face with 

fear,' 
And a eat that wanders far and near. 

Answers to above are: Catsup, cata- 
COmb, house cat, catalogue, caterpillar, 
catamount, catastrophe, cattle. 



A CAENIVAL OF NATIONS. 

IHIS is designed for a fancy-dress 
affair, each guest being requested to 
dress to represent some nation. When all 
have gathered a grand march is partici- 
pated in by all. As a feature of the enter- 
tainment a short description of the nation 
represented is read by each guest; these 
descriptions shculd be limited to not more 
than half a dozen facts ; this and his dress 
are the key by which he is identified. 
Slips of paper are provided and the guesses 
are recorded in the order in which they 
are read. A simple gift, as a book of views, 
is provided for the most successful con- 
testant. 

The second part of the evening may be 
devoted to the following national conun- 
drums; the answers may be written or 
given orally as desired. 

Name a murderess nation. (Assassina- 
tion.) 

A floral nation. (Carnation.) 

A poet's nation. (Imagination.) 

A school-girl's nation. (Examination.) 

A teacher's nation. (Explanation.) 

A traveler's nation. (Destination.) 

A preventative nation. (Vaccination.) 

A ruler's nation. (Coronation.) 

A church-goer's nation. (Donation.) 



A DATE SOCIAL. 

j^HIS is a unique affair. Each person 
attending wears across his breast a 
placard bearing a date. Pencils and paper 
being provided each guest, they are re- 
quested to walk about the room and record 
each date they come in contact with, to- 
gether with an important event which 
transpired on said date, as — 1620, Land- 
ing of the Pilgrims; 1820, Missouri Com- 
promise, etc. At the end of a given time 
these lists are collected, corrected and the 
person having the longest list is presented 
with a pretty home-made calendar. 

Another set of papers are now provided, 
and the following type-written list of a 
Dish of Dates passed : 



A REUNION OF THE PEOPLE OF DICKENS. 



23 



DISH OF DATES. 

1 — An office-seeking date. (Candidate.) 
2 — An overflowing date. (Inundate.) 
3 — A heart-shaped date. (Cordate.) 
4 — A fear-inspiring date. (Intimidate.) 
5 — An obliging date. (Accommodate.) 
6 — A date that adjusts and settles. 

(Liquidate.) 
7 — An anticipating date. (Antedate.) 
8 — A date that makes solid. (Consoli- 
date.) 

A game called "Khyming Dates" is 
next introduced. One person is given a 
date by the hostess. He must use this date 
and some event connected with it in form- 
ing a rhyming couplet, as: 

"In seventeen hundred and sixty-three 
The Boston men threw over the tea." 

After forming his rhyme he is at liberty 
to give a date to any person in the room, 
who in turn must continue the rhyming, 
and thus the game continues. 




A DRAWING AFFAIR. 

HE materials required for this enter- 
tainment are a fair-sized blackboard, 
white crayon and slips of paper on which 
has been written names of familiar birds, 
| animals and other objects. These slips are 
placed in a hat and presented to each 
: guest, who draws one. 

Upon call of the hostess, each guest 
I passes to the board and draws the named 
' object. He is also required to write a 
poem of not less than six lines beneath the 
I drawing; the poem is then read for the 
I benefit of the assembly. This is a very 
! amusing entertainment. 

Another similar game is known as the 
J Blind Artist ; the guest is blindfolded and 
' then asked to draw a certain object. 



A REUNION OF THE PEOPLE OF 
DICKENS. 

PLEASANT evening's entertain- 
ment is the reunion of the people of 
Charles Dickens' novels. In the works of 



no other writer will be found such a variety 
of characters for representation. This ex- 
ercise is especially adaptable for a Lyceum 
or Reading Circle. It may be made com- 
ical, pathetic and highly entertaining. It 
may be arranged as a masquerade or 
purely literary affair. If the latter, we 
would suggest a Dickens Programme in 
connection with the character exhibit. 

In choosing the characters for repre- 
sentation a careful study of the part will 
be necessary, in order that the representa- 
tion may be perfectly natural. 

A pleasant feature of the literary pro- 
gramme may be tableaux adapted from the 
most pathetic scenes, as "Death of Little. 
Nell," "Pip and the Escaped Convict," 
and the "Companionship of Paul and 
Florence Dombey." 

We give a complete list of characters for 
representation, also the book in which they 
may be found. 

CHARACTERS. 

"Mr. Bumble," a pompous parish beadle, 
in Oliver Twist. 

"Jack Bunsby," a sea captain, oracle and 
philosopher, in Dombey and Son. 

"Searjeant Buzfuz," a bullying lawyer, in 
Pickwick Papers. 

"Rev. Mr. Chadband," a hypocritical cler- 
gyman, in Bleak House. 

"Capt. Cuttle," a sea-captain, in Dombey 
and Son. 

"Dodson and Fogg," a law firm, in Pick- 
wick Papers. 

"Paul Dombey," a delicate, pathetic child, 
in Dombey and Son. 

"Dora," the child-wife of David Copper- 
field, in David Copperfield. 

"David Copperfield," hero, in book of 
same name, 

"Mr. Squeers," a villainous schoolmaster, 
in Nicholas Nickleby. Also "Mrs. 
Squeers" and "Miss Fanny Squeers." 

"The Fat Boy," a humorous character 
who is always hungry, in Pickwick Pa- 
pers. 

"Joe Gargery," an illiterate blacksmith, in 
Great Expectations. 



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A FETE OF ROSES. 



"Mrs. Joe Gargery," wife of the aforesaid 
Joe. 

"Barnaby Rudge," a half-witted boy, in 
book of same name. 

"Bob Sawyer," a rollicking medical stu- 
dent, in Pickwick Papers. 

"Bill Sikes," a thief and murderer, in 
Oliver Twist. 

"Smike," a poor, despised outcast, in 
Nicholas Nickleby. 

"Mark Tapley," boy servant of Martin 
Chuzzlewit, in book of Martin Chuzzle- 
wit. 

"Mrs. Betsy Trotwood," eccentric aunt of 
David Copperfield. 

"Mr. Tulkinghorn," an old bachelor, in 
Bleak House. 

"Oliver Twist," a poor, miserable boy, in 
book of same name. 

"Mrs. Gummidge," the poor, 'lorn widder, 
in David Copperfield. 

"Uriah Heep," a deceitful villain, in Da- 
vid Copperfield. 

"Mrs. Leo Hunter," a blue-stocking, in 
Pickwick Papers. 

"Vincent Crummels and Ninetta Crum- 
mels," a traveling showman and his 
daughter, in Nicholas Nickleby. 

"Mrs. Jarley," proprietor of the wax- 
works show, in Old Curiosity Shop. 

"Mrs. Jellyby," a sham philanthropist, in 
Bleak House. 

"Mr. Alfred Jingle," a swindling stroller, 
in Pickwick Papers. > 

"The Kenwigs," a family of little girls, in 
Nicholas Nickleby. 

"Little Nell," the pure child heroine, in 
Old Curiosity Shop. Also Nell's grand- 
father, in same book. 

"Little Emily," pathetic character, in 
David Copperfield. 

"Mr. Mantalini," a fop, in Nicholas Nick- 
leby. 

"*] ho Marchioness," a poor, abused servant 
girl, in Old Curiosity Shop. 

"Mr. Micawber," a shiftless fellow, in 
David Copperfield. 

"Miss Miggs," an ill-tempered servant 
maid, in Barnaby Rudge. 

"Nancy," u depraved girl, in Oliver Twist. 



"Mrs. Nickleby" and "Nicholas Nickle- 
by," her son, in book of same name. 

"Pecksniff," a hypocrite, in Martin Chuz- 
zlewit. 

"Clara Peggotty," nurse of David Copper- 
field. 

"Mr. Pickwick," hero of Pickwick Papers. 

"Tom Pinch," an oddity, in Martin Chuz- 
zlewit. 

"Mr. John Podsnap," a pompous Brit- 
isher, in Our Mutual Friend. 

"Quipp," a hideous dwarf, in Old Curi- 
osity Shop. 

"Samuel Weller," body servant of Mr. 
Pickwick. 

"Tony Weller," father of Samuel. 

"Agnes Wickfield," second wife of David 
Copperfield. 

"Mr. Winkle," a sport, in Pickwick Papers. 

"Pip," a little lad, in Great Expectations. 



A FETE OF ROSES. 

fT was in June, the month of roses, that 
Mrs. Y. gave her novel social known 
as the "Fete of Roses." During the sea- 
son the same round of social events had 
taken place, and this little lady decided 
that she would try a new plan of entertain- 
ment, hence the fete. 

The home of the Y.'s had long been the 
admiration of their fellow-townspeople, 
being one of the oldest residences in the 
country round about, located on the out- 
skirts of the village, set in spacious 
grounds, surrounded by trees and shrub- 
bery. Its roses were the wonder and ad- 
miration of the whole populace, radiating 
as they did from the old-time cabbage rose 
to the newest novelty of modern culture. 
From the abundance of her store Mrs. Y. 
decided to give for the happiness of her 
friends. 

Much wonder was expressed among these 
friends when the little white missives ar- 
rived, bidding them welcome to a "Fete 
of Roses." 

Meantime Mrs. Y., assisted by the 
daughters of the family, proceeded to 
decorate the old house, until it appeared 



A FETE OF ROSES. 



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a veritable rose paradise. A color scheme 
was planned and followed rigorously. The 
reception-room was a fairy bower of while 
bride's roses and maiden-hair fern. A 
great embankment had been placed where 
the receiving party were to stand. The 
parlors were a study, one in pink, the other 
in yellow. The decoration of the dining- 
room was the deep rich red of the Ameri- 
can Beauty. The color scheme was carried 
into the decoration of the tables, where 
centerpieces of cardinal roses and ferns 
converted the tables into a a thing of 
beauty," which might have been "a joy 
forever." The chandeliers in each, room 
were softened by shades of the same pre- 
dominating color as the decoration. When 
the eventful evening arrived, nothing as 
beautiful had ever been seen in the village ; 
the receiving party, gowned in white and 
wearing no decoration excepting roses, 
welcomed each guest with smiling faces 
and happy hearts. 

The rose idea was not merely carried 
out in the decoration of the rooms, but 
also became a feature of the entertainment 
of the guests. Before the announcement 
of refreshments two young ladies appeared 
dressed to simulate flower-girls, and bear- 
ing each a tray, one heaped with pink 
buds, the other with f ull-blowu . white 
roses. Each rose had fastened to the stem 
a tiny scrap of paper, bearing a number ; 
each bud was likewise decorated. The 
roses were presented to the ladies of the 
party, the buds to the gentlemen. The 
hostess now explained that the numbers 
were duplicates, and that by searching for 
his "mate" the gentleman would find the 
lady he was expected to escort to refresh- 
ments. Then a merry search ensued. At 
last all were mated and repaired to the 
dining-room, where a dainty three-course 
lunch was served. The menu cards con- 
sisted of a single white card, decorated 
in water-colors, a tiny bud in one corner, 
each bearing the following quotation: 

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 
Old Time is still a-flying; 



And this same flower that smiles to-day, 
To-morrow may be dying." 

Between the. first and second course a 
tray containing pencils and paper was 
placed before the hostess. Then followed 
a rose game, which the hostess explained 
as follows: Each guest was presented 
with two slips of paper — one blank, the 
other containing a list of questions, the 
answers to which were different varieties 
of roses. The guest who first completed 
the list, most nearly correct, was entitled 
to a prize. The list will be found at the 
close of this article. 

Between the next courses a Rose Guess 
was held. A vase containing a single large 
rose was placed on the table ; the guests 
were then requested to guess the number 
of petals this rose contained; after the 
guesses were registered the petals were 
counted and a "booby" prize given the one 
making the wildest guess. 

On returning to the parlor each guest 
was given a slip of paper containing a por- 
tion of a quotation about roses. These 
slips were then compared and a search was 
inaugurated to find who held the remain- 
ing portion. After they were completed 
as they are thought to be correct they were 
read and the authors named at random by 
different guests. Following are some of 
the quotations used: 

"I heard instead the drowsy hum of bees, 
Among the roses in a winding lane." 

— Matheson. 

"The tear down childhood's cheek that 
flows, 
Is like the dewdrop on the rose." — Scott. 

"What hideous warfare hath been waged, 
What kingdoms overthrown, 
Since first I spied that primrose tuft, 
And marked it for my own." 

— Wm. Wordsworth. 

"What's in a name ? 
That which we call a rose 
By any other name would smell as sweet." 
— Wm. Shakespeare, 



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A FLOWER SOCIAL. 



"Bear lightly on their foreheads, Time — 
Strew roses on their way — 
The young in heart, however old, 
That prize the present day." 

— Chas. Mackay. 

"First love will with the heart remain 
When its hopes are all gone by, 
As frail rose-blossoms will retain 
Their fragrance when they die." 

— Claine. 

"You may break, yon may shatter the vase, 
if yon will, 
But the scent of the roses will cling 
round it still." — Thos. Moore. 

"I remember, I remember, 
The roses red and white; 
The violets and the lily-cups." 
—Thos. Hood. 

ROSE GAME. 

1 — A Frenchman's pride and glory ? (La 

France.) 
2— An old lady's comfort? (Tea.) 
3 — What young men seek ? (American 

Beauties. ) 
4 — A name sometimes applied to dull 

people ? (Cabbage. ) 
5 — A rural beauty ? ( Queen of the Prai- 
rie.) 
6 — A pigmy people ? (Dwarf.) 
7 — A rose used by a seamstress? 

(Thimble.) 
8 — An artistic rose ? (Raphael.) 
9 — A wedding attendant? (Maid of 
Honor.) 
10 — A literary rose ? (Spencer.) 



A FLOWER SOCIAL. 

HIS social should be held in the 
spring, when there is an abundance 
of flowers. A profusion of flowers should 
he used in the decorating. Use them in 
wreaths, garlands and in the old-time, bou- 
quets. The refreshment tables should be 
adorned with flowers. If small tables are 
used a pretty effect may be had by using 
a separate flower for each table decoration 



— one in violets, another in lilacs, one in 
daisies, and so forth. 

Two little girls should be dressed as 
flower-girls, wearing white frocks, with 
garnitures of flowers, and wreaths in the 
hair. 

Provide baskets ; fill these with bouton- 
nieres, on each of which is fastened a 
flower quotation, the author and poem 
from which it is taken being left a blank, 
to be filled in by the guest, this being the 
first game of the evening. The flower- 
girls are stationed at the doorway of the 
parlors and present each guest with a 
boutonniere as they pass into the room. 
The following flower quotations may be 
found helpful: 

"One by one, in the infinite meadows of 
Heaven, 
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me- 
nots of the angels." 
— Henry W. Longfellow, "Evangeline." 

"In the days gone by, when my naked feet 
were tripped 
By the honey-suckle's tangles where the 

water-lilies dipped, 
And the ripples of the river lipped the 

moss along the brink 
Where the placid-eyed and lazy-footed 
cattle came to drink." 

— James Whitcomb Riley, 

"The Days Gone By." 

"Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, 
That creepeth o'er ruins old." 

— Chas. Dickens, "The Ivy Green." 

"On waste and woodland, rock and plain, 
Its humble buds unheeded rise ; 
The rose has but a summer's reign ; 
The daisy never dies." 
— Jas. Montgomery, "The Daisy." 

"I steal by lawns and grassy plots ; 
I slide by hazel covers ; 
I move the sweet forget-me-nots 
That grew for happy lovers." 
— Alfred Tennyson, "Song of the Brook." 



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"The lily is all in white, like a saint, 
And so is no mate for me; 
And the daisy's cheek is tipped with a 
blush, 
She is of such low degree." 

— Thomas Hood, "Flowers." 

"Roses and lilies, and violets blue, 

Bloom for the souls of the good and true." 
—Will Carleton, "Cover Them Over." 

"Bring orchids, bring the foxglove spire, 
The little speedwell's darling blue, 
Deep tulips dashed with fiery dew, 

! Laburnums, dropping wells of fire." 
— Alfred Tennyson, "Spring." 

"There's a wedding in the orchard, dear ; 
I know it by the flowers ; 
They're wreathed on every bough and 
branch, 
Or falling down in showers." 
— Mary E. Dodge, "Blossom Time." 

"I was rich in flowers and trees, 
Humming-birds and honey bees ; 
For my sport the squirrel played, 
Plied the snouted mole his spade." 
— John G. Whittier, "Barefoot Boy." 

"O spirit of the summer time, 

Bring back the roses to the dells ; 
The swallow from her distant clime, 
The honey-bee from drowsy cells." 
— Allingham, "Song." 

"I thought of the green banks that circled 

around, 
With wild-flowers and sweet-brier and 

eglantine crowned, 
And I thought of the river all quiet and 

bright 
As the face of the sky on a blue summer 

night." 
— Anonymous, "Scenes of Childhood." 

"I hear the. wood-thrush piping one mel- 
low descant more, 
And scent the flowers that blow when the 
heat of day is o'er." 
— William C. Bryant, "Waiting by the 
Gate." 



"Where are the flowers, the fair young 
flowers, that lately sprung and 
stood 
In brighter light and softer airs, a beau- 
teous sisterhood? 
Alas, they all are in their graves; the 

gentle race of flowers 
Are lying in their lowly beds with the 
fair and good of ours." 
— William C. Bryant, "Death of the 
Flowers." 

"How sweetly bloomed the gay green birk, 
How rich the hawthorn's blossom, 
As underneath their fragrant shade 
I clasped her to my bosom." 
— Robt. Bums, "Highland Mary." 

"There is a reaper whose name is Death, 
And with his sickle keen 
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, 
And the flowers that grow between." 
— H. W. Longfellow, "The Reaper and the 
Flow r ers." 

"Under the sod and the dew, 
Waiting the Judgment-day ; 
Under the roses the Blue, 
Under the lilies the Gray." 

—Finch, "Blue and Gray." 

After the quotations have been com- 
pleted by the guests the hostess may re- 
quest each guest to read same, naming the 
poem from which it is taken and the 
author. If he has made an error, some 
guest then makes the correction, or this 
may be done by the hostess. 

The next game is a disguised flower 
game. Pencils and paper are provided for 
each guest, also a type-written list like the 
following. The person first completing 
the list receives a gift : 

1 — Flowers often sought in vain by 
young gentlemen. (Tulips.) 

2 — A source of great annoyance to un- 
married men. (Bachelor's But- 
tons. ) 

3 — A gallant gentleman and a beast of 
prey. (Dandelion.) 

4 — A flower much used by housewives. 
(Buttercups.) 



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A FEATHER SOCIAL. 



5 — What a lover called his rival. (A 

coxcomb. ) 
6 — A boy's delight. (Snowball.) 
7 — A midsummer friend. (Palm.) 
8 — What all young ladies have an ambi- 
tion to wear. (Orange Blossoms.) 
9 — A token of remembrance. (Forget- 
me-not. ) 
10 — What most men desire. (Marigold.) 
11 — An article of ladies' wearing apparel. 

(Lady's Slipper.) 
12 — An hour named for an event. (Four 

o'Clock.) 
13 — A balm for sorrow. (Heart's-ease.) 
14 — A term often used by a boy in describ- 
ing an article. (Daisy.) 
15 — The flower that ruined Holland. 

(Tulip.) 
16 — The result of afflictions. (Bleeding 

Hearts.) 
17 — An emblem of purity. (Lily.) 
18 — A sweet-scented herb. (Lavender.) 
19 — What a father said to his son early 
in the morning. (Johnny Jump- 
up.) 
20 — Musical flowers. (Bluebells. ) 

An impromptu game is played as fol- 
lows: Some person announces a letter. 
He then asks questions of any member of 
the party, which they are expected to an- 
swer by naming a flower beginning with 
the letter named — as, "What do you ad- 
mire?" If the letter announced is "P" 
the answers must be petunias, peonies, 
peas, etc. If the question remains unan- 
swered until the questioner has had time 
to count ten, a forfeit must be paid. 



A FEATHER SOCIAL. 

HIS is a very unique social, and for 
those who are searching for some- 
thing entirely new, we suggest its use. 

Cut the invitation card the shape of a 
feather. Le1 it boar this inscription: 

A FEATHEK SOCIAL, 

To be held when 
"The day is done and the darkness falls 
from the wings of night 



As a feather is wafted downward from 
an eagle in its flight." 
Procure as many different varieties of 
feathers as possible, from bird and fowl; 
fasten a slip of paper containing a num- 
ber on each and display on a table pro- 
vided for that purpose. Provide cards 
numbered as the feathers; present these 
to the guests and ask them to name the 
bird or fowl to which the feathers belong, 
according to number. When the list is 
complete a correct list is read. For a 
light game, play the old favorite "Float 
the Feather." This is played by divid- 
ing the guests into two parties and 
stretching a cord across the room, divid- 
ing it into two parts, placing one-half the 
guests on one side, the remainder on the 
other. Now blow a feather high in the 
air. The game is to prevent the feather 
falling to the floor on your side of the 
cord; if this happens, it counts one 
against you in the game. 

Have some guest prepare an autobi- 
ography of a feather and have it read. 
Here is an example : 

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FEATHER. 

The first that I remember in my exist- 
ence was that I was a soft, tiny hair; I 
was very young, so did not give much 
heed to what happened around me. 
Finally I grew stronger and larger, and 
soon developed into a full-fledged feather. 
One. day I felt myself being lifted up, 
and away I went sailing through the air. 
What rapture it was ! From that day 
henceforth I knew what my mission in 
life meant, and was most happy to fulfill 
the same; I wished that my life might 
continue forever in this way. I had 
heard that I was a most beautiful and 
valuable feather, as quills wove very sty- 
lish this winter. Now, I did not in the 
least understand what "style" meant, but 
I very soon learned, much to my sorrow. 
As my mother, the bird, and I wore sail- 
ing through the air one day there came 
a loud report, and the*) T folt myself fall- 
ing, falling down to the ground. I was 



A FltiE-AkT DISPLAY. 



much frightened and asked my mother 
the meaning of this strange performance, 
butj she did not answer me and I never 
heard her sweet voice again, for she was 
dead. 

I now wondered what was to befall me, 
but did not long remain in doubt, for I 
was seized by a rough hand, then heard 
a gruff voice exclaim: "Sure, this one is 
all right; see these fine feathers — they 
will make quills." Another voice now 
replied, "Well, handle them carefully." 
Xow came a terrible wrench and I found 
myself wrenched from the body of my 
poor, dead mother, and thrust into a dark 
dungeon, which I afterward learned was a 
"bag." I now felt myself being carried 
oh, so slowly, over miles and miles of 
rough, hard ground; this seemed very 
strange to me, as I had been accustomed 
to sailing through the air at a rapid rate. 
Finally we reached our destination and 
I was released from my prison. I was 
soon placed in another dark receptacle and 
sent away to what I afterward learned 
was a factory; there I saw millions of 
other feathers which were trimmed and 
dyed and created into what are called the 
"quflls," now so stylish. I am glad to 
state that I was not dyed, but was left 
in my natural state so far as color was 
concerned, but after the remaining process 
was completed I was pronounced a very 
handsome, jaunty quill. And now oc- 
curred another long, tedious journey, and 
when I at last arrived at the end of this 
journey I had hoped that my travels were 
past — but not so. I was placed in a 
glass case for a short time, then taken out 
and placed on a hat, which was declared 
to be "very swell," and now how many 
pretty heads I did adorn, while their own- 
ers were selecting a new "spring hat." 
But at last I was purchased by a most 
beautiful young lady, and sent to her 
home ; here I received much attention un- 
til the "season" closed ; then I was taken 
from the hat I adorned and cast into a 
drawer, where I lay until I was brought 
forth for an exhibit in this Feather Social. 



A FEAST OF FRUIT PI. 

DROVIDE pencils, paper and type- 
|^ : written lists like the following for 
each guest. The following list of words 
is jumbled letters or what is known as 



printer s pi 



The hostess explains that 



the letters when properly arranged will 
form a variety of fruit. A prize, may be 
given the person arranging the list cor- 
rectly. 



capeh 


repa 


pelappeni 


aaabnn 


pmul 


rechyr 


nraeog 


nelmo 


prage 


ntocacuo 


wrsbyrtare 


gif 


calbkrybre 


tarcurn 


deat 


yedrebrw 







The key to the above is as follows: 
Peach, banana, orange, cocoanut, black- 
berry, dewberry, pear, plum, lemon, 
strawberry, currant, pineapple, cherry, 
grape, fig, date. 



A FINE-ART DISPLAY. 

HIS is a Burlesque Social. Prepare 
catalogues with numbers and sub- 
jects, just as the real art catalogues are 
made. One of these catalogues is to be 
given each guest as he enters the room. 
The art display should be held in a room 
that is kept closed until all guests have 
arrived. 

In arranging the display use an ex- 
tended dining-room table. With a white 
crayon mark the. table off in squares, mak- 
ing them the proper size that you may 
have one square for each exhibit ; the line 
forms the frame of the "masterpiece." 
Place a number in the lower left-hand 
corner to correspond to number in cata- 
logue ; this will aid the guest in determin- 
ing the titles of the paintings. 

We give below a short list of subjects. 
An ingenious hostess can invent innumer- 
able new subjects for her display. 

LIST OF SUBJECTS. 

1 — The Skipper at Home. (Repre- 
sented by a piece of cheese). 



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A FOREST SOCIAL. 



2 — Study of a Head. (A cabbage.) 
3 — The. Pale Face at Home. (A powder 

box, face powder.) 
4 — A King of Sunny Lands. (A ball 

of cotton.) 
5— A Friend That Sticketh Closer Than 

a Brother. (Cup of molasses). 
6 — Scenes in China. (Pictures pasted 

on a china platter.) 
7 — The Ceaseless Grind of Labor. (Pair 

of false teeth.) 
8 — Origin of a Teardrop. (An onion.) 
9 — A Light of Other Days. (A candle- 
stick. ) 
10 — A Study in Scarlet. (Scrap of red 

flannel. ) 
11— The Irish Village. (A cork.) 
12 — A Study in Hearts. (A trio of 

"candy hearts.") 
13— An Airy Tale. (Tail of a kite). 
14 — Fetters of Gold. (Two wedding 

rings.) 
15 — To Aid a Weaker Sister. (A broom). 
16 — An Emblem of Justice. (Scales.) 
17 — A New Masher. (Potato Masher.) 
18— The Enemy of Man. (Needle, 

thread and button.) 
19 — A Friend in Need. (A hairpin.) 
20 — A Keason for Midnight Musings. 
(A cucumber.) 



A FOKEST SOCIAL. 

fHIS social should be held in the 
autumn when the leaves, touched by 
the fingers of Jack Frost, are turning to 
crimson and gold. The rooms should be 
decorated in branches and garlands of 
leaves, with plenty of evergreen for va- 
riety. 

There are a number of games suitable 
for this occasion. On a table should be 
displayed twenty different varieties of 
leaves, each bearing a number. Slips of 
] taper are prepared, each numbered from 
one to twenty, to correspond with the 
numbering of the leaves. These slips, 
together with pencils, are provided each 
guest. They are then asked to name the 



different leaves. When the lists are com- 
pleted they are collected and corrected by 
a committee appointed by the hostess. , - 

Small cards, each bearing in bold let- 
ters the name of a tree, are fastened one 
on the back of each guest. He is then 
expected to determine, by questions asked 
him and statements made to him what 
tree he represents. 

Next may be played Quotation Chips. 
This consists of slips of paper on which 
quotations bearing on trees have been writ- 
ten. These slips are cut into two portions, 
as irregular as possible, one portion being- 
given a guest, the remainder being thrown 
in a heap on the table. The guest is 
expected to search until he finds the re- 
maining chip of his quotation. The fol- 
lowing quotations will be found appropri- 
ate for this game : 

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 
There is a rapture on the lonely shore." 
— Lord Byron. 

"O whispering trees, companions, sages, 
friends, 
No change in you, whatever friendship 
ends." — Joaquin Miller. 

"Summer or winter, day or night, 
The woods are ever a new delight." 

— Richard H. Stoddard. 

"Alas for him who never sees 
The stars shine through his cypress trees ; 
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, 
Nor looks to see the breaking day 
Across the mournful marbles play." 

— John G. Whittier. 

"Faint murmurs from the pine tops reach 

my ear, 
As if a harp string — touched in some far 

sphere — 
Vibrating in the lucid atmosphere, 
Let the soft south wind waft its music 

here." —Thos. B. Aldrich. 

"Not merely growing, like a tree, 
In bulk, doth make men better be." 

— Ben J orison. 



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"The leaf tongues of the forest, the flower 
lips of the sod, 

The happy birds that hymn their rap- 
tures in the ear of God, 

The summer wind that bringeth music 
over land and sea, 

Have each a voice that singeth this sweet 
song of songs to me — 

This word is full of beauty, like other 
worlds above, 

And if we did our duty it might be full 
of love." — Gerald Massey. 

"One impulse from a vernal wood 
May teach you more of man, 
Of moral evil, and of good, 
Than all the sages can." 

— Wm. Wordsworth. 

"Like leaves on trees the life of man is 
found, 
Now green in youth, now withering on 

the ground ; 
Another race the following spring sup- 
plies, 
They fall successive and successive rise." 

— Alex. Pope. 

Yet another game is the Hidden Tree 

game, the following list of sentences being 

given, each of which contains a hidden 

tree: 

1 — The man stood at the helm. (Elm.) 

2 — They will reap each field in turn. 

(Peach.) 
3 — 'Tis gloomy since dark has fallen. 

(Cedar.) 
4o — Tall arches were placed along the 

streets. (Larch.) 
5 — The pin entered his hand. (Pine.) 
6 — He appeared to be in great pain. 

(Pear.) 
7 — Nancy pressed many beautiful flower 

specimens. ( Cypress. ) 
8 — Come, boys, let us go a kite-flying. 

(Oak.) 
9 — The sashi was sadly torn. (Ash.) 
10 — For this favor I will owe you grati- 
tude. (Willow.) 



A GOLD SOCIAL. 

I HE walls and furniture should be 
draped in yellow cheese-cloth or 
bunting. Yellow asters, sunflowers and 
golden-rod should be used as decorative 
flowers. There is a variety of yellow lily, 
which may also be obtained and which 
makes beautiful decorations. 

The refreshment table should be cov- 
ered with a white cloth, with decorations 
of yellow; yellow chrysanthemums will 
be found very effective table decorators. 
The maids presiding at these tables should 
be gowned in yellow. For refreshments 
serve lemon and orange ices, gold cake, 
ice-cream, with oranges and bananas for 
fruits. 

The amusements should be golden. 
Announce to the company that golden 
nuggets are hidden in various parts of the 
room, and that they may be obtained by 
searching; a merry search will ensue, and 
many nuggets, which consist of bonbons 
wrapped in gilt paper, will be unearthed. 

The following Golden Enigma may be 
found interesting: 

"There is a gold that soars in tree-tops 
high, 
And gold that round some heads doth 

fly; 

There is a gold that labors day by day, 
And a gold that's hidden far away. 
There's a gold that sparkles in the sun, 
And a gold o'er which clear waters run ; 
There's a gold that has led men far from 

home, 
And a gold that over prairies roam." 

The key to the above is as follows: 
Goldfinch, gold-i-locks, goldsmith, gold- 
field, gold dust, goldfish, gold-fever, golden 
pheasant. 

The following Golden Thoughts are 
distributed and read by the guests, each 
calling on some person to name the author : 

"Silence is golden." — Bible. 

"Better than grandeur, better than gold, 
Than rank or titles, a hundred fold, 



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Is a healthy body and a mind at ease, 
And simple pleasures that always please." 
— John G. Whittier. 

"Then here's to our boyhood, its gold and 
its gray ; 
The stars of its winters, the dews of its 
May." — Oliver W. Holmes. 

"How sweet at set of sun to view 
Thy golden mirror spreading wide." 
— Percival. 

"Dear common flower, that growest be- 
side the way, 
Fringing the dusty road with harmless 
gold." — James R. Lowell. 

"I wandered lonely as a cloud 

That floats on high o'er vales and hills, 
When all at once I saw a crowd, 
A host of golden daffodils." 

— Wm. Wordswoi'th. 

"Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard, 
Heap high the. golden corn." 

— John G. Whittier. 

"And countless wedding jewels shine, 
And golden gifts of grace ; 
I never saw such wealth of sun 
In any shady place." 

— Mary Mayes Dodge. 

"I love the beautiful evening 

When the sunset clouds are gold ; 
When the barn-fowls seek a shelter 
And the young lambs seek their fold." 

— Nealy. 

"My glowing heart beats high 
At the sight of shining gold ; 
But it is not that which the miser's eye 
Delighteth to behold."— Eliza Cook. 

"Not for the. violets golden 
That sprinkle the vale below." 

— Alice Gary. 

"Woods and cornfields a little brown — 
The picture must not be over bright; 



Yet all in the golden and gracious light 
Of a cloud when the summer sun is 
down." — Alice Gary. 

"There through the long, long summer 
hours, 
The golden light should lie." 

— William G. Bryant. 

"Let those who wish them toil for gold 
and praise; 
To me the summer day brings more of 
pleasure." — Arnold. 

"But on the hill the golden-rod, the aster 
in the. wood, 
And the yellow sunflower by the brook 
in autumn beauty stood." 

— William G. Bryant. 

"Matted and damp are the curls of gold, 
Kissing the snow of that fair young 
brow." — Lacoste. 

"The golden hours, on angel wings 
Mew o'er me and my dearie ; 
For dear to me as light and life 
Was my sweet Highland Mary." 

— Robert Burns. 

"There's a land far away, 'mid the stars, 
we are told, 
Where they know not the sorrows of 
time; 
Where the pure waters wander through 
valleys of gold, 
And life is a treasure sublime." 

— Clark. 

"There's one with ringlets of sunny gold, 

And eyes the reflection of Heaven's 

own blue; 

He crossed in the. twilight gray and cold, 

And the pale mist hid him from mortal 

view." — Wakefield. 



AN HISTORICAL SOCIAL. 

I HIS social will be found suitable for 
|f> a Washington birthday anniversary. 
Procure white cards about three inches 
square. In the upper left-hand corner 



AN HISTORICAL SOCIAL. 



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paint, in water colors, a tiny American 
flag; in the center of the card write "An 
Historical Social" ; below this the date. 

The decorations for this social should 
be in the national colors, using a profu- 
sion of flags. Portraits of eminent Ameri- 
cans might also have a place in the decora- 
tions. A statuette or bust of Washington 
should hold a prominent place. 

One of the leading features of this even- 
ing should be the music, which should 
consist of patriotic airs, both vocal and 
instrumental. 

Provide the pictures of twenty promi- 
nent historical characters, mount on white 
cardboard, number each and hang on the 
wall. Each member of the party is given 
pencils and paper and asked to write the 
names of these persons according to num- 
ber. Also write a list of short, pithy 
"sayings," one of each of the pictured 
Americans chosen. Place these lists on 
the. walls at intervals where they may be 
accessible to each guest, and ask them to 
write this quotation on their list opposite 
the person who uttered it. For the benefit 
of those who may wish to use this social 
we submit the following list of pictures 
and quotations to be used: 

Washington — "I die hard, but I am not 

afraid to go." 
Madison — "I always talk better when I 

lie." 
Lincoln — "I am but an accidental instru- 
ment." 
Clay — "I would rather be right than to 

be president." 
Henry — "Give me liberty or give me 

death." 
Taylor — "I am waiting for Santa Anna 

to surrender." 
Webster — "Liberty and union, now and 

forever, one and inseparable." 
J. Q. Adams — "This is the last of earth; 

I am content." 
Perry — "We have met the enenry and they 

are ours." 
Lawrence — "Don't give up the ship." 
Jefferson— "This is the Fourth of July." 



Adams — "Thomas Jefferson still sur- 
vives." 

Grant — "We will fight it out on this line 
if it takes all summer." 

Sherman — "If Hood will go, I will give 
Mm rations to go on." 

Sheridan — "Turn boys, turn ; we're going 
back!" 

Paul Jones — "I have not yet begun to 
fight." 

W. H. Harrison — "The principles of the 
government; I wish them carried out." 

Garfield — "Ideas are the great warriors of 
the world." 

Andrew Jackson — "Our watchword is vic- 
tory or death." 

Benjamin Harrison — "God pity the 
American citizen who does not love our 
flag." 

The next game is called Disguised His- 
torical Characters. Each guest is given 
a list, and a contest follows as to who can 
complete the list first, a suitable prize 
being provided for the winner: 

1 — An instrument used in writing. 

(Penn.) 
2 — A meadow or sward land. (Lee.) 
3 — A common breakfast dish. (Bacon.) 
4 — A carnivorous animal. (Wolfe.) 
5 — Mound or dikes of earth. (Banks.) 
6 — A rough, prickly seed envelope. 

(Burr.) 
7 — The frame of a vessel. (Hull.) 
8 — Passageways in fences. (Gates.) 
9 — The head-covering of a child. 
(Hood.) 
10 — An energetic, four-winged insect. 

(Bee.) 
11— A kind of soft earth. (Clay.) 
12— The head of the Catholic Church. 

(Pope.) 
13— A spear. (Pike.) 
14 — To drive or penetrate. (Pierce.) 
15 — The market value of an article. 

(Price.) 
16 — A worker of stones and mortar. 

(Mason.) 
17 — An extremity of the human body. 
(Foote.) 



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18 — A household servant. (Butler.) 
19 — Carbonized iron. (Steele.) 
20 — A boast. (Bragg.) 

Tiny American flags should be given as 



souvenirs. 



AN INDOOR FISHING PARTY. 

I HIS fishing party is held indoors. 
Tiny rods and lines are provided 
with wire hooks. A pasteboard box is 
prepared to hold the fish; small slits are 
cut in the lid, and in these slits are fitted 
white cardboard fish, one for each guest. 
The rules for the fishing are as follows: 
One hand only, and a limit of iive minutes' 
time to make a catch. Once caught the 
fish will be found to contain the following 
list, known as a Game of Fish, the an- 
swers to the list being well-known species 
of fish. Each guest is requested to write 
the name, of the species opposite the name 
on the list. 

1 — A perfection fish. 

2 — A clinging fish. 

3 — A musical fish. 

4 — A wealthy fish. 

5 — A ruling fish. 

6 — A flowery fish. 

7— A hard fish. 

8 — An animal fish. 

9 — A crawling fish. 
10— A light fish. 
11— A cold fish. 
12— A tool fish. 
13 — A complaining fish. 
14 — A Heavenly fish. 

The answers to above are as follows : 

1 — Angel. 
2— Bur. 
3— Drum. 
4 — Dollar. 
5 — King. 
0— Kose. 
7— Rock. 

8 — Cow, Dog or Buffalo. 
9 — Snake. 
10— Sun. 



11— Frost. 
12— File. 
13— Grunt. 
14 — Paradise. 



A JAPANESE SOCIAL. 



JAPANESE SOCIAL, guests re- 
quested to come "en costume," so 
the invitations read. 

The rooms were beautifully decorated in 
palms and Japanese parasols and lan- 
terns; chairs were removed and cushions 
provided for seating the guests. 

For refreshments tea and rice were 
served from tiny tables. A trio of young 
]adies, dressed as Japanese women, ap- 
peared with guitars and furnished music. 
A table containing Japanese curios was 
an interesting feature. 

Japanese napkins, on which were writ- 
ten a list of jumbled cities, were given 
each guest, and they were required to re- 
arrange the letters in proper form. 

Next a number of Japanese tops were 
provided, and all joined in spinning them 
(this being the principal game of the 
Japanese). 

Tiny Japanese fans were given as sou- 
venirs. 



A KODAK MEET. 



NE of the merriest picnics of the 
season was the Kodak Meet. It was 
given by the Amateur Photographers' 
Club, in a wood some miles from the vil- 
lage. The journey was made on wheels, 
each of which was decorated with a gay 
little Japanese lantern; a merry proces- 
sion they formed speeding away over the 
country roads so early in the morning, be- 
fore the heat of the day had arrived. 
They were followed, at a more leisurely 
pace, by a light wagon loaded with such 
supplies as kodaks, cameras, tripods, 
hammocks, camp-chairs, lunches, etc. 

Before the noon hour the picnic grounds 
had been selected and had assumed a fes- 



A HALLOWE'EN SOCIAL. 



tive air, with hammocks stretched under 
trees, rugs spread on grass plots, etc. At 
luncheon hour the cloths were spread on 
the grass in true picnic fashion, and the 
goodies enjoyed as only hungry picnickers 
can enjoy food. 

After luncheon members of the party 
strayed here and there, making negatives 
of pretty nooks and corners, which when 
fully developed would prove beautiful 
souvenirs of the day's outing. As the 
heat increased all returned to camp and 
enjoyed the friendly shade of the forest 
trees, while two young men of the party 
departed to search for a spring of cool 
water. Much surprise was manifested 
when they appeared a little later bearing 
between them a huge demijohn supported 
on a heavy stick. This proved to contain 
a quantity of sweet milk which had been 
given them by a hospitable farmer's wife 
who lived near at hand. All voted it the 
best nectar ever sipped, and manifested a 
desire to make the acquaintance of their 
patron, and later in the evening this was 
accomplished, together with a heap of 
negatives which each member of the party 
insisted on taking, of farmhouse, wife, 
husband and children, in all manner of 
poses; weeks after these simple people 
were the recipients of a volley of pictures 
in which their home and its inmates were 
centered ; even the dog was not forgotten, 
and one enterprising amateur had slipped 
away to the barn and taken a "snap" at 
Bossy and the baby calf, which was a de- 
cided success, and which was immediately 
voted by the "son and heir" to be worth 
all the rest of the "trash put together." 



A HALLOWE'EN SOCIAL. 

fHIS might also be known as a Mys- 
tical Social. Send brief rhymed 
invitations something like the following: 

"You're invited to come on next Thursday 
night — 
Where the Jack-o-Lantern sheds his 
light; 



The Will-o-the-Wisp will sparkle above 
And aid you in finding your own true 
love." 

A Hallowe'en social would never be 
complete without the old-time games. We 
quote the following from "Notes" on Hal- 
lowe'en, by Burns: 

BURNING THE NUTS. 

Two nuts are selected — one named for 
a girl, the other for a boy. These, are 
placed in an open fire; if they burn 
quietly together, the couple shall wed and 
lead a happy life; on the other hand, if 
one "pops" away from the other, they will 
never wed. If an open fire is not attain- 
able, the above game may be played by 
substituting popcorn for nuts, placing it 
on a hot stove cover, the same result may 
be obtained. 

WATER FORTUNE. 

Take three dishes; put clean water in 
one, foul water in the second, and leave 
the third empty. Blindfold a person and 
lead him to the dishes. He (or she) dips 
in the left hand; if in clean water, he 
shall have a happy marriage with a beau- 
tiful maiden ; if in the foul water he shall 
wed a widow, and if in the empty bowl 
he shall never wed at all. This should be 
repeated three times, the dishes being re- 
arranged each time. 

THE LOOKING-GLASS TEST. 

Arrange a looking-glass to hang near a 
draped doorway. A man wearing .a mask 
should be concealed behind this drapery. 
Now invite some lady to test the Glass 
Game as follows : Lower all lights in the 
room, take a candle and go before the 
glass, gaze into it, eating an apple all the 
while, and tradition says that your future 
husband will peer into the glass over your 
shoulder. The masked man should glide 
from behind the curtain and peer over the 
shoulder of the young lady at just the 
right moment. This will occasion much 
merriment and result in a great surprise 
for the lady. 



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SEEKING FOR FORTUNE. 

Hide a wedding ring, a purse and a but- 
ton in different parts of the room pro- 
vided for the entertainment of the guests. 
Now begins a search. The person who 
finds the ring will be happily married ; the 
one who finds the purse will be immensely 
rich, and the one who finds the button will 
be doomed to "single blessedness for life." 

FORECASTING THE FUTURE. 

Have a person disguised as a witch; 
swing a kettle between two forked sticks ; 
the witch with her ladle is stirring a mix- 
ture, which will bring to all who cross 
her palm with three black beans a forecast 
of the future. The kettle contains num- 
berless articles wrapped in tissue paper. 
The following type-written list is now 
brought forth and hung on the wall, being 
the key to the fortune found. Each guest 
as he takes his fortune from the kettle 
refers to this key : 

1 — A small cake — means that your fu- 
ture husband will be a baker. 

2 — A pair of scissors — a tailor. 

3 — A penholder — an author. 

4 — A poem — poet. 

5 — A text-book — teacher. 

6 — A cartridge — soldier. 

7 — Shoetacks — cobbler. 

8— Pills— doctor. 

9 — A brush — artist. 
10 — A coin — banker. 

The. above list is only suggestive. 
Enough articles should be provided that 
every guest may draw a fortune. 

APPLE GAMES. 

Cut an apple in halves and remove the 
seeds. Place four seeds in the. palm of 
the hand. Some bystander now names the 
seeds, in his mind only; the person hold- 
ing the seeds picks one up, saying: "This 
one I'll take and never forsake." He is 
then told who it was named. He takes 
up another and says, "This is my heart's 
desire"; with the third one it is, "This 
one I love with all my heart," and the 



fourth and last, "And this one I cast in 
the fire." 

Another apple-seed game is: Easten 
two seeds to the eyelids, one on either side. 
These are also named by a friend. Then 
begins a winking and blinking to see which 
falls first; the one that remains will be a 
true and faithful lover. 

Outside the house have numerous Jack- 
o-Lanterns made of yellow pumpkins, with 
candles burning brightly in each; place 
them in forks of trees, on the gate-posts, 
at the entrance of the veranda and on every 
window-sill. 



A HARD TIMES SOCIAL. 

N this event each guest is dressed to 
represent Hard Times. "Kags and 
tags" will be in order. A prize is pre- 
sented to the one best representing Hard 
Times, the prize being awarded by a com- 
mittee selected for the purpose. 

The refreshments should consist of 
hardtime fare — bacon and beans, corn- 
bread and milk. 

Eor amusements a series of tableaux 
may be given, representing the subject of 
the evening. These tableaux may be 
adapted from the writings of well-known 
authors. A good stage should be built, 
with heavy curtains arranged to roll easily. 
A reader should be secreted behind the 
draperies. 

The first tableau is adapted from "The 
Song of the Shirt" by Thomas Hood. A 
poor, thinly clad sewing girl is seated in 
a bare room sewing by the light of a single 
flickering candle. The voice behind the 
scene reads: 

"With fingers weary and worn, 
With eyelids heavy and red, 
A woman sat in unwomanly rags 
Plying her needle and thread. 
• Stitch, stitch, stitch! 

In poverty, hunger and dirt, 
And still in a voice of dolorous pitch 
She sang the Song of the Shirt, 
(Voice continues as the curtain falls.) 



A HARD TIMES SOCIAL. 



men, with sisters dear, 

O men with mothers and wives ! 
It is not linen you're wearing out, 

But human creatures' lives. 
Stitch, stitch, stitch ! 

In poverty, hunger and dirt, 
Sewing at once with a double thread, 

A shroud as well as a shirt." 

The next picture is adapted from Long- 
fellow's "Village Blacksmith." The cur- 
tain is drawn, showing the blacksmith at 
work at his forge. 

"Week in, week out, from morn till night, 
You can hear his bellows blow ; 
You can hear him swing his heavy 
sledge, 
With measured beat and slow, 
'Like a sexton ringing the village bell, 
When the evening sun is low. 
(As the curtain is lowered.) 
Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, 

Onward through life he goes ; 
Each morning sees some task begun, 

Each evening sees it close. 
Something attempted, something done, 
Has earned a night's repose." 

Next we have a forlorn, forsaken old 
woman, dressed in rags, and walking with 
the aid of a cane; as she walks feebly 
across the stage, the reader begins the fol- 
lowing extract from Will Carlton's "Over 
the Hills to the Poorhouse" : 

"Over the hills to the poorhouse, I can't 
quite make it clear ; 
Over the hills to the poorhouse, it seems 

so horrid queer; 
Many a step I've taken a-toilin' to and 

fro, 
But this is a sort of a journey I never 
thought to go. 
(The voice continues as she disappears 
behind the scenes.) 

1 am willin' and ready and anxious any 

day, 
To work for a decent livin' and earn my 

honest way; 
For I can earn my victuals, and more 

too, I'll be bound,- 



If anybody only is willing to have me 
'round." " 

The next picture is from "The Song of 
Hiawatha," Longfellow. It represents an 
Indian, bow and arrow in hand, searching 
for game. 

"Oh the famine, and the fever, 
Oh the wasting of the famine, 
Oh the blasting of the fever, 
Oh the wailing of the children, 
Oh the anguish of the women, 
All the earth was sick and famished! 
Forth into the mighty forest 
Rushed the maddened Hiawatha; 
In his heart was deadly sorrow, 
In his face a stony firmness; 
'Gritche Manito, the Mighty,' 
Cried he, with his face uplifted, 
In that hour of bitter anguish, 
'Give your children food, O Father, 
Give us food or we must perish.' 

(As the curtain descends.) 
Through the forest, vast and vacant, 
Rang the cry of desolation ; 
But there came no other answer 
Than the echo of his crying." 

Next we have a picture from "Found 
Dead in the Street," by an Anonymous 
writer. The reading begins before the 
curtain rises. 

"The labor is over and done, 

The sun has gone down in the west ; 
The birds are asleep every one, 
And the world has gone to its rest. 

"Sleepers on beds of down, 

'Neath covers of silk and gold ; 
Soft as on roses new blown, 
Slept the great monarch of old. 

"Sleepers on mother's breast, 
Sleepers happy and warm; 
Cosy as birds in their nest, 

With never a thought of harm. 

(Curtain rises here, showing a poor, 
ragged little newsboy, lying on the bare 



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floor, with one arm under his head, fast 
asleep.) 

"Sleepers in garrets high, 

'Neath coverlets ragged and old; 
And one little sleeper all under the sky, 
Out in the night and the cold. 
(Curtain falls as voice continues.) 
" Alone in the wide, wide world, 
Christless, motherless, he; 
Begging or stealing for bread, and 
whirled 
Like wave on an angry sea. 

"In the heart of the wealthiest city, 
In this most Christian land, 
Without ever a word of pity, 
Or the touch of a kindly hand." 

The next scene is taken from the poem 
"Give Me Three Grains of Corn." A 
mother is seated by the pallet upon which 
a poorly clad, hungry-appearing boy is 
lying; his hand is extended beseechingly 
toward the mother, who is clothed in rags. 
All surroundings should indicate extreme 
poverty. 

"Give me three grains of corn, mother — 

only three grains of corn ; 
It will keep the little life I have, till 

the coming of the morn ; 
I am dying of hunger and cold, mother — 

dying of hunger and cold — 
And half the agony of such a death my 

lips have never told ; 
It has gnawed like a wolf at my heart, 

mother, a wolf that is fierce for 

blood, 
All the. livelong day and the night beside, 

gnawing for lack of food. 
I dreamed of bread in my sleep, mother, 

and the sight was Heaven to see; 
I awoke with an eager, famishing look, 

but you had no bread for me." 

As the reader closes the curtain falls 
and the tableaux are ended. 

The above social may be used as a home 
or church entertainment. If used in 
church a small admission fee may be 
charged, which includes refreshments. 



A HANDY AFFAIR. 

I IKY cards containing a pen-drawing 
of a hand with index finger ex- 
tended toward the words "A Handy Af- 
fair," serve as invitations. 

The object of this social is pure and 
simple fun. 

A sheet should be stretched between two 
rooms, across a doorway. Slits just wide 
enough to admit the insertion of a hand 
should be cut in the sheet. The company 
should now be separated — the ladies in one 
room, gentlemen in the other. Cards and 
pencils are now furnished the gentlemen, 
while the light is extinguished in the room 
occupied by the ladies. Now a hand ap- 
pears in the opening and each gentleman 
is required to register the name of the 
lady to which the hand belongs, This 
will be found a most perplexing game, as 
all the hands will look so much alike. 
After the lists are completed the hostess 
reads a correct list and the person who 
has guessed the greatest number of hands 
correctly is entitled to a book devoted to 
palmistry. 

Now have a hand-drawing. Provide 
large sheets of manila paper; place this 
on a table and request each guest to place 
his right hand palm downward on the 
paper and draw an outline ; these outlines 
are numbered on the reverse side, and the 
hostess keeps a record of name and num- 
ber. Next these outlines are cut from the 
paper, taken into an adjoining room, 
tacked to the wall; 
vited to select his own hand. 

Another pleasing feature of this enter- 
tainment may be a lady, who understands 
something of the art of palmistry, to be 
dressed as a "seeress," and make known 
to all inquirers what awaits them in the 
future. 

For souvenirs cut out tiny hand-shaped 
cards and write hostess' name and date of 
the meeting, also these words: 

"Beautiful hands are those that do 
Deeds that are noble, kind and true." 



then each guest is in- 



A LITERARY MASQUERADE. 



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A JUMBLE SOCIAL. 

HE invitations to this social should 
be written in a jumbled or mixed-up 
manner. They might be in this form: 
"Invited are you a to Social Jumble at 
friend's house your; come mysteries un- 
ravel; 12th, 1901, November, o'clock 8 
m. p." 

The furniture should be. jumbled to- 
gether ; add boxes and stools for additional 
seats; have part of the chairs turned one 
way, the remainder in an opposite direc- 
tion. A basket containing the following 
jumbled sentences is passed. Each guest 
takes a paper, and with pencil and blank 
paper, which is now passed, attempts to 
form correct sentences out of the jumble. 

1 — "Ssnau ssnihe sseoh nad sskoc; sscko 
adn sseho esnhi Ssuna ; seh sceehar 
siinnhg ssoeh nad sskoc, orf sshoe 
nad skocs skoch Ssnau." 

2 — Rrtebo Rwoely llored a ournd lorl 
rdoun ; a ruodn lorl Rrbote Rlowey 
llored unrod. Hewre rlledo het 
nourd lorl rrbeto rwloye llored 
udron?" 

Key: 

1 — Susan shines shoes and socks; socks 
and shoes shine Susan. She ceaseth 
shining shoes and socks, for shoes 
and socks shock Susan. 

2 — Robert Rowley rolled a round roll 
round; a round roll Robert Rowley 
rolled round. Where rolled the 
round roll Robert Rowley rolled 
round ? 

Next provide numbered slips of paper. 
Ask all gentlemen to write a question be- 
ginning it with "What would you do if" ; 
the ladies to begin "I would." After 
these questions and answers are completed 
they are read, much to the amusement of 
the company. 

For refreshments the bill of fare was a 
^3nble. Each person was allowed to 
select his own refreshments, nothing being 



allowed him except what was chosen in 
this manner. 

BILL OF FARE. 

1 — Pretty Points (tooth picks). 

2 — Bits of Northland (ices). 
3 — Punished Riches (whipped cream). 
4 — Klondyke Nuggets 
(gold cake in fancy shapes). 
5 — Blushing Beauties (peaches). 

6 — Fairy Nectar (lemonade). 
7 — Old Favorites (bon-bons). 
8 — Briny Tubers (salted peanuts). 



A KODAK SOCIAL. 

I HIS social will be found especially 
interesting to parties interested in 
photography. 

All amateur photographers are re- 
quested to bring samples of their work, 
also their kodaks. 

Provide sheets of cardboard in a va- 
riety of colors. These are to be given 
guests, on which to arrange their display 
of photographs. A committee of three per- 
sons, none of whom are "kodakers," is 
selected to award the prize to be given 
the best display of pictures. W T e suggest 
that the prize, consist of a blue ribbon for 
the best display, a red for the second best 
and a white for the third. 

One of the pleasant features of the even- 
ing should be the taking of new pictures. 
The hostess should see that good strong 
flash lights are provided for this event. 
The posing, the grouping, and the discus- 
sions arising between the numerous rival 
photographers will furnish ample, amuse- 
ment for one evening. 



A LITERARY MASQUERADE. 

fT is designed that each guest attending 
this social come dressed to represent 
some character of fiction. A study of the 
character chosen is essential that it may 
be well presented. A prize of a book 
should be given the one best disguised, the 



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point being decided by the popular vote 
of the company. 

Following is a list of characters and the 
book in which they may be found: 

MALE. 

I- — Dominie Sampson, a school-master in 
"Guy Mannering," by Walter 
Scott. 
2 — Ichabod Crane, Yankee school-mas- 
ter in "Sketch Book" Irving. 
3 — Adam Bede, hero, a carpenter, in 
book of same name, George Eliot. 
4— Enoch Arden, a sailor, in book of 

same name, by Tennyson. 
5 — Major Dobbin, a military officer, in 

"Vanity Fair," Thackeray. 
6 — Hiawatha, Indian, in "Songs of Hia- 
watha/' by Longfellow. 
7 — Guy Mannering, English officer of 
wealth, in book of same name, 
Scott. 
8 — Lara, outlaw chief, in "Lara," by 

Byron. 
9 — John Alden, lover of Priscilla, in 
"Courtship of Miles Standish," by 
Longfellow. 
10 — Jerry Sneak, a hen-pecked husband, 

in "Major of Garratt," Eoote. 
11 — Jean Valjean, hero of "Les Miser- 

ables," by Victor Hugo. 
12 — Kip Van Winkle, an idle fellow, in 

"Sketch Book," Irving. 
13 — James Merwyn, hero in "A Minister's 

Wooing," by Harriet B. Stowe. 
14 — Eben Holden, hero in book of same 

name, by Bachellor. 
15 — Alfred Donnithorne, young squire, in 

"Adam Bede," by Eliot. 
16 — Maj. Bath, a kind-hearted gentleman, 

in "Amelia," by Eielding. 
17 — Harry Baillie, a jolly inn-keeper, in 

"Canterbury Tales," Chaucer. 
18 — Peter Bell, a wandering tinker, in 
poem of same name, by Words- 
worth. 
19 — Baron Cathcart, hero, in "Norwood," 

Henry Ward Beecher. 
20— Beau Brummel, in "Sketch Book," 
by Irving. 



FEMALE. 

1 — Sophia Primrose, beautiful daughtef 
of the vicar, in "Vicar of Wake- 
field," by Goldsmith. 
2 — Dinah Morris, a preacher, in "Adam 

Bede," by George Eliot. 
3 — Priscilla, puritan maiden, in "Court- 
ship of Miles Standish," Long- 
fellow. 
4 — Becky Sharp, a female sharper, in 

"Vanity Fair," by Thackeray. 
5 — Topsy, young slave, in "Uncle Tom's 

Cabin," Harriet Beecher Stowe. 
6 — Miss Celia, heroine, "Under the Li- 
lacs," by Louisa M. Alcott. 
7 — Evangeline, heroine of book of same 

name, by Longfellow. 
8 — Maud, heroine of Tennyson's 

"Maud." 
9 — Lucile, heroine of book of same name, 
by Meredith. 
10 — Mrs. Caudle, a scold, in "Curtain 

Lectures," by Douglas Jerrold. 
11 — Camille, heroine of book of same 

name, by Dumas, Jr. 
12 — Sally Brass, a mean character, in 
"Old Curiosity Shop," by Dickens. 
13 — Hester Prynne, heroine, in "Scarlet 

Letter," by Hawthorne. 
14 — Hetty Sorrel, a pretty girl, in "Adam 

Bede," Eliot. 
15 — Clara Peggotty, servant girl, in "Da- 
vid Copperfield," by Chas. Dickens. 
16 — Jane Eyre, heroine of book of same 

name, by Charlotte Bronte. 
17 — Canace, a princess, in "The Squire's 

Tale," by Chaucer. 
18 — Jo Marsh, heroine, "Little Women," 

by Louisa M. Alcott. 
19 — Rose Went worth, heroine, "Nor- 
wood," Henry Ward Beecher. 
20 — Maurine, heroine of book of same 
name, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 

For the second part of the evening use 
the following game of Disguised Literary 
People. A small prize may be provided 
for the most successful contestant. 



A MAY DAY SOCIAL. 



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DISGUISED LITERARY PEOPLE. 

1 — To quiver and a weapon of warfare. 

2 — Results of contact with fire. 

3 — A sober color. 

4 — Not short, and a male. 

5 — Receptacles for grain. 

6 — Never slow. 

7 — A part of the human body. 

8 — A preserved meat. 

9 — A manufacturing building, and a 
unit of measure. 
10 — Not wet, and the home of a wild 

animal. 
11 — A bleak land. 
12 — Thin, pale and wan. 
13 — A slang phrase. 
14 — A species of tree. 
15 — Painful enlargement on the foot. 
16 — To put away. 
17 — Cries of a wild animal. 
18 — A brave general. 
19 — Unlocks doors. 

20 — An unpleasant sensation accompany- 
ing illness. 
21 — A sticky soil. 

22 — Not high, and a reservoir for water. 
23 — A country of Europe. 
24 — Unsettled water. 

25 — A popular game, and a preposition. 
26 — A boy's name, and 2,000 pounds. 
27 — -A head covering. 
28 — Not far away. 
29 — A domestic animal. 
30 — A small stream of water. 
31 — A domestic servant. 
32 — A worker in precious metals. 
33 — The name of a boy, and a species of 

tree. 
34 — The head of the Catholic church. 
35 — A popular recreation. 

ANSWERS TO ABOVE. 

(1) Shakespeare, (2) Burns, (3) Grav, 
(4) Longfellow, (5) Saxe, (6) Swift, (7) 
Heart, (8) Bacon, (9) Milton, (10) Dry- 
den, (11) Moore, (12) Haggard, (13) 
Dickens, (14) Hawthorne, (15) Bunyan, 
(16) Stowe, (17) Howells, (18) Scott, 
(19) Key, (20) Pavne, (21) Clay, (22) 
Lowell, (23) Holland, (24) Riley, (25) 



Tennyson, (26) Carlton, (27) Hood, (28) 
Nye, (29) Lamb, (30) Brooks, (31) But- 
ler, (32) Goldsmith, (33) Franklin, (34) 
Pope, (35) Hunt. 



A MAY DAY SOCIAL. 

"I|iECORATE the rooms with potted 
|^/ plants and evergreens. Garlands 
and wreaths of cut flowers should be 
draped and hung on the walls. The fur- 
niture should be removed or covered with 
draperies in green ; if possible hold the 
social in a house containing double par- 
lors. 

On one side of the room erect a plat- 
form for a throne, on the throne place a 
high-backed chair, then drape platform, 
throne and chair in pink and white cheese- 
cloth, the colors of spring. 

In the center of the room erect a pole, 
having it as tall as the ceiling will allow, 
crown the top of this pole with a beautiful 
wreath of spring flowers ; under this 
wreath, on top of the pole, fasten long- 
streamers of ribbon, much longer than the 
pole, beginning at the bottom roll the. rib- 
bons up until they are out of harm's way, 
then fasten with a pin under which is a 
numbered paper. Slips of paper bearing 
duplicate numbers are given each guest as 
they enter the room. 

When all guests have arrived, a written 
vote is taken for the purpose, of ascertain- 
ing which lady shall be crowned Queen 
o' May; after the. votes are counted the 
selected Queen is surrounded by her sub- 
jects and a merry dance ensues, to the 
lively music of a piano. At the termina- 
tion of this dance, the Queen is escorted to 
the throne, and seated thereon; while the 
music continues, at a given signal from 
the Queen, each guest seizes the ribbon 
corresponding to his number, and the 
dance continues around the May pole, the 
gentlemen facing in one direction, the 
ladies in the opposite; the result will be 
that the pole will be completely covered 
with the woven ribbon. 

In an adjoining room a sort of an im- 



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promptu stage has been erected for a 
series of tableaux, adapted from "Tenny- 
son's May Queen." This room should be 
dimly lighted, and soft music rendered 
during the performing of the tableaux. 
The entire poem should be read. 

Scene I represents the May Queen 
seated on a throne, while her merry sub- 
jects dance about her. 

"You must wake and call me early, call 

me early, mother dear, 
To-morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all 

the glad New Year; 
To-morrow 'ill be of all the year the 

maddest, merriest day, 
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, 

I'm to be Queen o' the May." 

Scene II represents a sick-room; a 
young girl reclining on a couch, while, a 
physician bends over her holding her hand 
in his, while in the other hand he holds a 
watch. The mother stands near with an 
anxious expression. 

"There's not a flower on all the hills ; the 

frost is on the pane, 
I only wish to live till the snow-drop 

comes again ; 
I wish the snow would melt and the sun 

come out on high, 
I long to see a flower so before the day I 

die." 

Scene III represents the same sick-room, 
with the mother sitting thoughtfully be- 
side the bed; the sister enters bearing 
quantities of violets which she heaps upon 
the bed, kissing her sister as she performs 
the act. 

"O, sweet is the new violet, that comes be- 
neath the skies, 

And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to 
me that cannot rise; 

And sweet is all the land about, and all. 
the flowers that blow, 

And sweeter far is death than life to me 
that longs to go." 



Scene IV — The sick-room perfectly 
dark, except for the faint and flickering 
light of a single candle. A white-robed 
angel appears and lays her hand on the 
head of the girl, while it points upward. 

"All in the wild March morning I heard 

the angels call, 
It was when the moon was setting and 

the dark was over all ; 
The trees began to whisper and the wind 

began to roll, 
And in the wild March morning I heard 

them call my soul." 

Scene V — The death chamber. The girl 
propped up on pillows, her mother kneel- 
ing beside her, holding her hands and 
quietly weeping; the sister lying across 
the lower part of the couch in a paroxysm 
of tears ; a clergyman standing, open Bible 
in hand, while in the background are 
grouped weeping friends. 

"It seemed so hard at first, mother, to 

leave the blessed sun, 
And now it seems as hard to stay, and 

yet His will be done ! 
But still I think it can't be long before I 

find release, 
And that good man, the clergyman, has 

told me words of peace." 

Scene VI — A still form lying on the 
couch, over which a white sheet has been 
tightly drawn; the sheet is strewn with 
flowers. Wax candles are burning at head 
and foot of couch. 

"Forever and forever all in a blessed 

home — 
And there to wait a little while, till you 

and Efne come — 
To lie within the light of God, as I lie 

upon your breast, 
Where the wicked cease from troubling 

and the weary are at rest." 

Souvenir cards, bearing the name of the 
hostess and the date on one side, and on 
the reverse the following quotation, 
be presented each guest: 



A NORTH-LAND SOCIAL. 



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TO THE MAY QUEEN. 

"Still bloom, sweet flowers, for her dear 
sake; 
I love ye all the more, 
That she has winged her mystic flight 
To Heaven's eternal shore." 



A MEMORY SOCIAL. 

IffiS social will be found both amus- 
ing and pathetic. The invitation 
cards bear the word "reminiscents" in 
the lower left-hand corner. 

On arriving the guests are handed slips 
of paper bearing the following request: 
"Please be prepared to tell what event of 
your childhood made the most lasting im- 
pression on your mind, also to recite the 
first poem ever committed to memory." 

At a recent social the range of literary 
"gems" ran from "Little Tommy Tucker" 
to Longfellow's beautiful "Children's 
Hour," but the Mother Goose rhymes hold 
the most prominent place. Some of the 
stories were most pathetic. 

A pretty souvenir for this occasion is 
a little home-made booklet, containing the 
beautiful poem, "Pictures from Memory," 
by Alice Cary. This should be bound in 
water-color paper, with a pretty water- 
color sketch of trees on the cover. The 
inside cover page may contain the date of 
meeting, together with the name of the 
entertainer, the remainder of the. book 
being given to the poem, one stanza to the 
page. We give the poem below: 

PICTURES FROM MEMORY. 

"Among the beautiful pictures 

That hang on Memory's wall 
Is one of a dim old forest 

That seemeth best of all ; 
Not for its gnarled oaks olden, 

Dark with the mistletoe; 
Not for the violets golden 

That sprinkle the vale below; 

"'Not for the milk-white lilies 



That lean from the fragrant ledge, 
Coquetting all day with the sunbeams, 

And stealing their golden edge ; 
Not for the vines on the upland, 

Where the bright red berries rest; 
Nor the pinks, nor the pale sweet cowslip, 

It seemeth to me the best. 

"I once had a little brother 

With eyes that were dark and deep; 
In the lap of that dim old forest 

He lieth in peace asleep ; 
Light as the down of the thistle, 

Free as the winds that blow, 
We roved there the beautiful summers, 

The summers of long ago ; 
But his feet on the hills grew weary, 

And one of the Autumn eves 
I made for my little brother 

A bed of the yellow leaves. 

Sweetly his pale arms folded 

My neck in a tender embrace, 
As the light of immortal beauty 

Silently covered his face ; 
And when the arrows of sunset 

Lodged in the treetops bright, 
He fell, in his saint-like beauty, 

Asleep by the gates of light. 
Therefore of all the pictures 

That hang on Memory's wall 
The one of the dim old forest 

Seemeth the best of all." 

— Alice Cary. 



A NORTH-LAND SOCIAL. 

HE rooms should be decorated to rep- 
resent the frozen northland regions. 
This may be accomplished by using drap- 
eries of soft white cheesecloth and cotton, 
over which silver dust has been sprinkled. 
Grasses and leaves may be crystallized by 
suspending them in a strong solution of 
alum and water; these much resemble icy 
formations, and w 7 ill be found very effect- 
ive decorations. The. lights should be 
shaded in silvery white paper. 

The refreshments may consist of ices, 



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AN "OLD SCHOOL" SOCIAL. 



ice cream, silver cake and bon-bons wrap- 
ped in silver paper. 

For amusements a series of papers may 
be prepared on northland subjects as "The 
Land of the Midnight Sun," "The Lap- 
lander at Home," "Ice-Bergs and Gla- 
ciers/' etc. 

These readings should be interspersed 
with good vocal and instrumental music, 
in which are introduced some pretty sleigh- 
ing glees. 

A game of snow-ball may be introduced. 
These snow-balls consisting of packages of 
white, tissue paper, rolled in a ball; in 
the heart of the balls will be found a tiny 
package wrapped in tin foil. On opening 
the package it will be found to contain a 
conundrum, which the company are ex- 
pected to answer. These snow-balls may 
be distributed by a little boy dressed in a 
fanciful costume, to represent Jack Frost. 

This will be found a very striking "hot 
weather" social. 



AN OLD TIME SOCIAL. 

fNVITATIONS are worded in the 
usual form with "Costume" in the 
lower left-hand corner ; the costumes may 
be simple or elaborate, according to the 
fancy of the guest. 

The rooms should be decorated in "old 
time" style ; old straight-backed cane-seated 
chairs, and claw-foot tables. Strings of 
dried apples and pumpkins, with a plenti- 
ful sprinkling of herbs, should be sus- 
pended from the ceiling; place a musket 
over the door. A grandfather's clock 
would be a novel acquisition. If possible, 
fashion a semblance of an old-style fire- 
place with brass andirons ; add a spinet or 
melodeon and the furnishings are com- 
plete. 

For games have the old-fashioned fav- 
orites: "Needle's Eye," "Button, Button, 
Who Has the Button," "Tin, Tin, Come 
In," "Blind Man's Buff," "Forfeits," 
"Reuben and Rachel," and if dancing is 
indulged in then have the Minuet, "Vir- 



ginia Reel," and "Here Comes Two Boys 
A-courting." 

Vocal music, in which all voices join, 
should be indulged; select such songs as 
"Comin' Thro' the Rye," "Suanee River," 
"Old Kentucky Home," etc. 

For refreshments have the old-fashioned 
dainties, cider, apples, pop-corn and nuts. 



AN "OLD SCHOOL" SOCIAL. 

j^IHE invitation cards bear the word 
"Costume." Each guest is expected 
to be attired in the school costume of long 
ago. This will become an easy task if an 
old grandmother or friend of the family 
is consulted, for what old person does not 
enjoy talking of "when I was young." If 
questioned further as to what formed the 
chief amusement of those days we would 
find that the glory of every school was its 
"Spelling Bees," so for amusement let us 
have the old-fashioned bee. Two captains 
should be chosen, and the labor of dividing 
the school into "sides" is soon over. Web- 
ster's old "blue-backed Speller" should be 
the chosen text-book. At the conclusion of 
this part of the entertainment a gift in the 
shape of Eggleston's "Hoosier School- 
Boy" should be given the one who "stood 
up longest." 

After the spelling-bee excitement has 
subsided some old "counting out" games 
may be indulged in. These counting out 
rhymes will be found quite amusing, the 
questions they have settled in their day 
being varied and many. The company 
should be divided into groups of from four 
to seven and some questions asked, as 
"Who will be the most famous person in 
this group V 9 Then the counting-out 
rhyme is called into favor to settle the 
question. We give a number of the old 
favorites : 

"Bee, bee, bumble-bee, 
Stung a man on the knee; 
Stung a pig in the snout, 
O-u-t spells out." 



AN OLD MAID AUCTION. 



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"Intra, mintra, contra corn, 
Apple seeds and apple thorns; 
Fire, brier, limber-lock, 
Three geese in one flock ; 
One flew east, one flew west, 
One flew over the cuckoo's nest." 

"Eni, nieni, mini, mo, 
Crack a feni, fini, fo, 
Ommanuga, poppatuga, 
Eick, hick, hando." 

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 
All good children go to Heaven." 

"One, two, three, four, 
Mary at the cupboard door, 
Eating pie off a plate, 
Five, six, seven, eight." 

"One, two, 
Buckle my shoe; 
Three, four, 
Open the door." 

Next come forfeits. Many aged people 
will remember the joy of redeeming for- 
feits, although the good old game has now 
passed out of favor, save for a few known 
only to the children of the present genera- 
tion. 

"Baying like a dog," "Crowing like a 
rooster," "Grunting like a pig," "Keep- 
ing post-oflice," where the letters were 
numbered by kisses for the pretty girls; 
"Picking cherries," another of the old kiss- 
ing games ; these and many more that may 
be revived for the occasion. 



AN OLD MAID AUCTION. 

I^JHIS social, if properly carried out, 
rft ^ s very novel. It should be given 
bv a club or band of vouns; ladies to their 



gentleman friends. 



Eacli gentleman re- 



ceives the following invitation: 



"You're requested to attend an 'Old Maid' 
sale, 



We hope you'll attend, without fail; 
The maids will be sold according to 

weight, 
At a perfectly proper and reasonable rate. 
So come one and all, 'tis your duty you 

know — 
To see that none of the maids sell low." 

The materials required to carry out this 
plan consist of as many sheets as young 
ladies, also a mask for each lady. A set 
of scales should be in evidence. An elder- 
ly lady acts as manager and hostess for the 
occasion. The young ladies are draped 
in the sheets in such a manner that all 
have the same appearance, each wears a 
mask. A large number pinned on the 
front of the draperies, these numbers rang- 
ing from one on up, to the number of 
ladies taking part in the farce. 

When all gentlemen have arrived the 
manager steps to the front of the stage 
(erected for the purpose) and makes the 
following announcement : "Gentlemen, 
you are gathered here to purchase very 
valuable property ; the terms of sale are as 
follows: each maid is to be sold by the 
pound. I reserve the right of attending 
to the matter of weighing. The price to 
be paid being one chocolate cream per 
pound. You have no doubt often heard 
the old maxim, "Sweets for the sweet;" 
this is a practical application of the max- 
im. The young ladies will appear imme- 
diately, and to avoid all unnecessary 
trouble in selection, I request you to select 
by number only, after which the lady will 
be weighed and you may then take im- 
mediate charge of your property, after 
paying the price." 

At this juncture a quartet of little girls 
dressed as street vendors appear crying 
"Chocolates, chocolates, who will buy, who 
will buy?"' At the same moment the 
young ladies file on the stage in regular 
order, and the selections and the fun be- 
gin. 

After the selections have been made the 
weighing is done by the manager, who 
writes the weights in a note-book provided 



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A POSTER SHOW. 



for the purpose; after all have been 
weighed she announces to the waiting pur- 
chaser that this was a most singular sale, 
each lady having weighed the same num- 
ber of pounds, exactly one hundred. The 
price is then paid and a piano secreted be- 
hind the scenes strikes a lively air, and 
away they all circle in a grand march. 
This march continues until the dining- 
room is reached, when the music ceases 
as abruptly as it began, and as the last 
chord dies away each maid lifts her mask 
and the purchaser beholds his property. A 
dainty luncheon is then served, in which 
chocolate creams play a prominent part. 
The remainder of the evening is passed 
in music and games, and on departure the 
gentlemen are presented with a pretty 
souvenir card bearing in one corner a 
tiny drawing of a little cottage, and be- 
neath these words : 

"Men may live without art and live with- 
out books, 
But civilized men cannot live without 
cooks." 



A PATRIOTIC SOCIAL. 

^JHIS social will be found suitable for 
Fourth of July, Memorial Day or 
Washington's Birthday. The rooms should 
be decorated in the National colors, using 
bunting and flags; if held in summer the 
decorations should extend to lawn and 
veranda. Chinese and Japanese lanterns 
should be used for out-door lights. 

In addition to the usual form the invi- 
tation cards bear the words "Historical 
Costumes. " 

The beauty of this gathering will be in 
the costuming. "Uncle Sam" and Co- 
in nib i a should be present, also numerous 
sailors, soldiers, hospital nurses, colonial 
dames, Indian chiefs with their squaws, 
with a sprinkling of the colored brothers 
and sisters. It will be a pleasing feature 
if each ex-president and his wife are in at- 
tendance. 



A platform should be erected on the 
veranda; here an impromptu program 
should be carried out. This program 
being largely musical. Old time war bal- 
lads should have a prominent place. Some 
pretty tableaux may be planned, illustrat- 
ing war scenes. Some good readings 
should be interspersed. Most interesting 
and beautiful sketches are to be found in 
Louisa May Alcott's "Hospital Sketches." 

A plentiful supply of fire-crackers 
should be provided, and a display of fire- 
works would be a pleasing addition. 



A POSTER SHOW. 

'HE Poster Show, if rightly developed, 
may be made a very amusing enter- 
tainment. Each poster entered at the 
show must be the handiwork of the ex- 
hibitor. He has his choice of subjects. 
It can be comical, pathetic or common- 
place; one of the most amusing effects is 
obtained by attempting to use some one of 
the guests as a subject, a physician or 
school-teacher being good subjects. 

A canvas is stretched on the wall as a 
background for the display. A committee 
appointed by the hostess receives the post- 
ers at the door and arranges the display; 
when all are completed the guests are in- 
vited to enter and view the works of art. 
All posters are numbered in large num- 
bers, plainly discernible from all parts of 
the room ; slips of paper bearing duplicate 
numbers are now passed to the guests, each 
guest taking one number ; pencils and pa- 
per are provided and the guests asked to 
write a comical poem descriptive of the 
poster numbered as the slip they have 
drawn. Twenty minutes are allowed for 
the writing; the poems are then read. 
After the reading a vote is taken to decide 
who had the. best poem, and a prize of a 
pretty art poster is given him. A prize 
is also given the person having the most 
unique poster, this also being decided by 
a popular vote. 



A PROGRESSIVE LITERARY SOCIAL. 



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A PERIODICAL SOCIAL. 

TINY card accompanying the invi- 
tation makes known to each guest 
what part he is expected to fill in the 
building of the periodical ; one card bears 
the word "Editorial," another "Person- 
als," a third "Advertisements," etc. Each 
guest comes prepared to do his share to- 
ward the evening's entertainment; paper 
and pencils are provided and the work be- 
gins ; twenty minutes is the limit of time 
allowed, and as each guest has had time to 
study his subject before, much will be 
accomplished in this length of time. A 
blackboard has been provided, and a sum- 
mary of the news written out upon it ; 
each guest reads his own portion, the board 
making known to him the proper time for 
his reading. It will add to the fun if some 
person who is clever with a pencil be sta- 
tioned at the board to illustrate the articles 
as they are read. 

Following is a list of subjects for a 
periodical : 

Editorial. 

Crime. 

Politics. 

Personal mention. 

Society Notes. 

Fashion Notes. 

Farmer's Department. 

Cozy Corner. 

Questions and Answers. 

Advertisements. 

Want Ads. 

Review of New Books. 

Fiction. 

Poems. 

Art Department. 

Men and Women of the Hour. 



A PROGRESSIVE SOAP BUBBLE PARTY. 

LARGE bowl of soap and water, 
made very soapy from a good float- 
ing soap, and a generous supply of clay 
pipes, are the materials required for this 
l social. The pipes are decorated with rib- 



bons, red for the ladies, blue for the gen- 
tlemen. Two persons, a lady and a gen- 
tleman, open the contest; the one blowing 
the largest and most perfect bubble is 
counted the winner, three .trials allowed. 
If the lady wins she must meet each gen- 
tleman in a contest until she is beaten; 
if the gentleman wins then vice versa. 
At the close the lady having been most 
successful in the contest competes against 
the most successful gentleman; this de- 
termines the final victory. The pipes are 
given as souvenirs. 

Now have a word contest. Provide pen- 
cils and paper for the guests and let each 
strive to form the greater number of words 
from the letters contained in the words 
"Soap bubbles," fifteen minutes being al- 
lowed for the contest. At the end of this 
time the guest having the longest list is 
allowed to read his list, and then call upon 
any members of the party to form coup- 
lets rhyming w T ith the words he announces, 
as, the word being Bob: "A boy named 
Bob the birds did rob," etc. The result 
will be amusing as some of the guests will 
show much poetical talent along this line. 



A PROGRESSIVE LITERARY SOCIAL. 

>REPAEE iive sets of literary cards, 
four cards to each set. There should 
be five tables, one for each set of players. 
The game begins at Table No. 1 ; four 
players seat themselves and with blank 
cards and lead pencils which have been 
provided for each table, await the signal 
to begin the. contest. Three minutes are 
allowed the players to finish Set No. 1 ; 
after completing the work they pass to 
the next table, where a new set of cards 
await them. A committee has been ap- 
pointed for each table to correct the lists 
as fast as the players progress to the next 
table. At the close of the evening these 
committees compare notes and the player 
having made the most points (these points 
consisting of the greatest number of cor- 
rect answers) is entitled to a gift. A pop- 



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A PROGRESSIVE LITERARY SOCIAL. 



ular book would be an appropriate prize 
for this occasion. We give the entire con- 
tents of the five sets of cards: 

SET NO. I. 

(Pseudonyms.) 

1— Who was "Patty Lee V 

(Alice Cary.) 
2— Who was the "Poet Painter ?" 

(William Cullen Bryant.) 
3— Who was "Timothy Titcomb ?" 

(Josiah Gilbert Holland.) 
4— Who was the "Boy poet ?" 

(Thomas Chatterton.) 
5— Who was the "Quaker Poet?" 

(John Greenleaf Whittier.) 
6— Who was "Mark Twain ?" 

(Samuel Clemens.) 
7— Who was the "Hoosier Poet V 9 

(James Whitcomb Riley.) 
8— Who was "Boz V 9 

(Charles Dickens.) 
9— Who was the "Scotch Laddie ?" 

(Robert Burns.) 
10 — Who was "Diedrich Knickerbocker V 9 

(Washington Irving.) 

SET NO. II. 

(Homes of Authors.) 

1— Who lived at "Elmwood V 9 

(James Russell Lowell.) 
2— Who lived at "Craigie House V 9 

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.) 
3— Who lived at "Sunnyside V 9 

(Washington Irving.) 
4— Who lived at "Idlewild V 9 

(Nathaniel Parker Willis.) 
5— Who lived at the "Old Manse V 9 

(Nathaniel Hawthorne.) 
6— Who lived at the "Wayside V 9 

(Nathaniel Hawthorne.) 
7 — Who lived at "Racedown Lodge V 9 

(William Wordsworth.) 
8— Who lived at, "Alworth House?" 

(Alfred Tennyson.) 
9— Who lived at "Kilcolman V 9 

(Thomas Spencer.) 
10— Who lived at "Abbottsf ord V' 

(Sir Walter Scott.) 



SET NO. III. 

(Books.) 

l_Who wrote the "Sketch Book?" 

(Washington Irving.) 
2— Who wrote "Tanglewood Tales V 9 

(Nathaniel Hawthorne.) 
3— Who wrote the "Waverly Novels V 9 

(Sir Walter Scott.) 
4— Who wrote "Old Curiosity Shop V 9 

(Charles Dickens.) 
&— Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin V 9 

(Harriet Beecher Stowe.) 
6 — Who wrote "Romeo and Juliet?" 

(William Shakespeare.) 
7 — Who wrote "Evangeline l" 

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.) 
8 — Who wrote "Snow Bound?" 

(John Greenleaf Whittier.) 
9 — Who wrote "Neighborly Poems V 9 

(James Whitcomb Riley.) 
10— Who wrote "Farm Ballads V 9 

(Will Carleton.) 

SET NO. IV. 



(Quotations.) 



Who said : 



1 — "The paths of glory lead but to the 

grave?" (Thomas Gray.) 
2 — "Life is real, life is earnest ?" (Henry 

Wadsworth Longfellow. ) 
3 — "Dreams are but children of the 

brain?" (William Shakespeare.) 
4 — "A thing of beauty is a joy forever ?" 

(John Keats.) 
5 — "We rise in glory, as we sink in 

pride?" (Edward Young.) 
6 — "Riches cannot rescue from the 

grave?" (John Dryden.) 
7 — "True gladness does not 

speak?" (Ben Jonson.) 
8 — "Man fearlessly his voice for truth 

should raise ?" (Alice Cary.) 
9 — "The love of woman is known to be a 

lovely and a fearful thing?" 

(Lord Byron.) 
10 — "We build the ladder by which we 

rise?" (Josiah Gilbert Holland.) 



always 




M"M 



THE FETE OF ROSES. 

Clever way of entertaining- the old and young. 
(For description see page 24.) 




A LITERARY MASQUERADE. 
(For description of characters and books they represent see page 39.) 



A PICTURE SHOW. 



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SET NO. V. 

(Songs.) 

1— Who wrote "Those Evening Bells ?" 

(Thomas Moore.) 
2— Who wrote "Old Kentucky Home ?" 

(Samuel Foster.) 
3 — Who wrote. "Home, Sweet Home V 9 

(John Howard Payne.) 
4— Who wrote "Ben Bolt?" 

(English.) 
5 — Who wrote "Auld Lang Syne ?" 

(Kobert Burns.) 
6— Who wrote "Old Oaken Bucket?" 

(Samuel Woodworth.) 
7— W T ho wrote "The Bridge ?" 

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.) 
8 — W T ho wrote "Woodman, Spare that 

Tree V ( Samuel Morris. ) 
9— Who wrote "Annabel Lee V\ 

(Edgar Allen Poe.) 
10— Who wrote "The Last Kose of Sum- 
mer?" (Thomas Moore.) 



A PICTURE SHOW. 

HE requirements for this entertain- 
ment are simple ; it is designed for a 
lawn social. It is necessary that the 
house have a large window, the new 
Erench ones are best adapted for this 
work. It will be necessary that a number 
of the guests act as assistants to the hostess. 
Of course a moonlight evening will be 
chosen for this affair ; moonlight and lawn 
sociables are "one and inseparable." Rus- 
tic seats should be provided for the. guests. 
Chinese lanterns hung on invisible wires 
will add to the beauty of the grounds. 

The house should be darkened, except 
one room, that in which the show is to be 
given. All draperies should be removed 
from the window and a dark cloth draped 
around the extreme outer edge of the frame 
to simulate a picture, frame. A bright 
light should be placed on the opposite side 
of the room from the window ; this light 
must be arranged so that it may be raised 
or lowered at will. Now the requisites 



for the entertainment have been provided. 

Each guest has been provided with pen- 
cil and paper, and is now ready to record 
his guess as to the subject of the picture 
shown. The subject of the pictures may be. 
chosen at the will of the entertainer; we 
have chosen that of books. A simple prize 
should be provided for the winner of the 
contest. 

The invitation cards for this affair 
should contain a little pen and ink draw- 
ing in one corner, and on the lower mar- 
gin these words: "That which delights 
the eye is food for the soul." 

Now the. lights are turned low and the 
persons taking part in the first picture are 
arranged; then the full light illumes the 
scene, and we behold — 

A small boy in a big basket on the back 
of an old man, and immediately we cry, 
Eben Holden by Irving Bacheller. 

Several persons artistically grouped, 
holding musical instruments as if about 
to play, and we have Anna Alice Chapin's 
"Masters of Music." 

A youth standing erect, wearing a robe 
and crown, while a courier bows before 
him, becomes "Every Inch A King," by 
Josephine C. Sawyer. 

A young man attired in the height of 
fashion and a beggar in rags are "The 
Prince and the Pauper," by Mark Twain. 

A quartet of little girls attired as wo- 
men, "Little Women," by Louisa May 
Alcott. 

A soldier with shackled hands being led 
away by an officer is "A Captive of War/' 
by Solon Hyde. 

A candle held in the hand in such a 
position that it suddenly flickers and dies 
out is "The Light That Failed," by Rud- 
yard Kipling. 

Two immense, shoes covered with small 
pictures becomes Bayard Taylor's "Views 
Afoot." 

A man sitting in shirt sleeves, busily 
engaged in sewing buttons on a coat, be- 
comes "When a Man's Single," by Barrie. 

Four old ladies grouped around a table 
drinking tea are "Cranford," by Gaskell. 



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A. STORY EVENING. 



A little boy dressed in fancy costume, 
with wide white collar and broad silk sash, 
is "Little Lord Fauntleroy," by Frances 
Hodgson Burnett. 

A young girl dressed in the fashion of 
long ago and carrying an old-fashioned 
reticule is "An Old-Fashioned Girl," by 
Louisa May Alcott. 

A trio of soldiers with knapsacks on 
their backs are "Soldiers Three," by Kud- 
yard Kipling. 

A large waste-basket full of letters and 
many loose ones scattered about on the 
table near becomes "An Englishwoman's 
Love Letters," by Lawrence Housman. 

A young lady arrayed in a ravishing 
costume, adjusting her hat before a mir- 
ror, is "Vanity Fair," by Thackeray. 

A little child standing beside a tall plant 
becomes "Beside the, Bonny Brier Bush," 
by Ian McLaren. 

A young girl attired as an Irish peasant 
girl is "A Daughter of the Fields," by 
Miss Tynan. 

A bent and crippled cobbler busily en- 
gaged in mending an old pair of shoes is 
"The Cobbler of Nimes," by Miss Taylor. 

Two young girls, one bright and smiling, 
the other cross and sullen, are "Tempest 
and Sunshine," by Mary Jane Holmes. 

The above list is merely suggestive. 
The world of books is unbounded and each 
hostess can choose to suit her own literary 
fancy. This novel entertainment will be 
found most pleasing. 



A SILHOUETTE SOCIAL. 

fF you are searching for an evening of 
pure and simple fun, then by all 
means try a silhouette social. The ar- 
rangement for this affair requires very lit- 
tle labor ; first the invitation cards. Select 
a fair-sized card, oblong in shape; now 
draw in one corner a tiny silhouette, then 
write beside the picture these, words of 
Burns: 

"Oli, wad some power the giftie gie us 
To see oursels as others see us." 



You must now procure some large sheets 
of manila paper, a few more than the 
number of your guests, also provide a 
good hard lead-pencil and a pair of sharp 
scissors. The room must be brightly 
lighted; a chair is placed near a smooth 
wall and in such a position that the re- 
flection of the, person occupying it falls 
without interruption upon the wall. A 
guest is now invited to be seated in the 
chair ; the pose should be such that a good 
profile is obtained ; now fasten your sheet 
of paper firmly to the wall and draw 
thereon the profile. The paper should 
then be numbered in the center of the re- 
verse side and this number together with 
the name of the guest recorded in a note- 
book. Continue the drawings until the 
whole company have been drawn ; now car- 
ry all the drawings into an adjoining room 
and cut the profile out of the paper ; when 
all are finished, take them into the dining- 
room and lay them number side down on 
the extended dining-room table ; the guests 
are now invited to select their own profile 
from the display; this will cause much 
merriment ; after all have made selections 
the hostess reads the names according to 
the number. Next rearrange the profiles 
on the wall, and have a written vote taken 
as to which one is entitled to a blue rib- 
bon for being the most handsome ; it will 
add to the merriment to vote on the ug- 
liest one also, a yellow ribbon being pro- 
vided for this one. The profiles are then 
presented to the original as a souvenir of 
the occasion. 



A STORY EVENING. 

MKS. T — invites you to attend a 
Story Social on Thursday evening, 
June 16. Please come prepared to tell an 
interesting story." Thus the invitation 
read. I tell an interesting story? never 
in the world! But, my curiosity being 
aroused, I finally decided that I would 
invent some sort of a story. Rather than 
miss this unique social, I determined to 
put my "wits" to work to invent one ; no 



A SCISSORS SOCIAL. 



51 



matter, thought I, it will not take me long 
to read my story and that will be all that 
will be required of me. But alas, I 
k 'reckoned without my host — ess." 

When the eventful Thursday evening 
arrived and I was ushered into my friend's 
parlor what was my surprise to see a for- 
midable looking black-board staring me in 
the face ; it made me think of my school- 
days, and a little red brick school-house 
where I used to ask of my teacher permis- 
sion to write some exercise "on the board." 
I thought in those childish days that if I 
could have a blackboard of my own or have 
permission to use one as often as I liked 
I should always be happy, but to-night I 
had misgivings. 

I was aroused from this reverie by the 
voice of my hostess. "My friends," she 
was saying, "we will now proceed to relate 
the stories, and after the narrator has fin- 
ished his tale we will ask him to illustrate 
the same on this humble board." "Hor- 
rors, how can I ever accomplish that?" 
thought I. "But," she was continuing, 
"any person who refuses to illustrate said 
story will be required to pay a forfeit, and 
I shall hold the right to tell in what man- 
ner these forfeits shall be redeemed, and I 
assure you that I shall give you no easier 
task than repeating the whole multiplica- 
tion-table backward and forward." There 
was a general laugh after this speech, and 
the stories began. How eagerly we awaited 
the close of that story, but when it was 
finally finished and the drawing began 
how we did laugh. The young man first 
chosen to relate his story was a great wag, 
and he carried all his powers of amuse- 
ment into that drawing ; after he had fin- 
ished all felt free to attempt the drawing. 
I So story after story followed without our 
i ever tiring in the least, and when the time 
for leave-taking came it seemed that the 
>! evening had but begun. 

As we were preparing to leave, the hos- 
tess appeared bearing in her arms an im- 
imense lot of turkey feathers. Fastened to 
each of them by a bright knot of scarlet 
ribbon was a card containing these words ; 



"Accept a Parting Tale." These were 
carried away as souvenirs. 



A SCISSORS SOCIAL. 

fHIS will be found a very novel af- 
fair. When sending invitations 
each guest should be requested to bring 
with him to this social a pair of scissors; 
of course much conjecture will be held as 
to what part the scissors are to have in 
the play. 

Secure a large quantity of cartridge 
paper, in different shades, cut into ten- 
inch squares ; provide a large table, around 
which the guests are seated and each given 
ten squares of the paper, in various shades ; 
each guest is told to cut some device from 
this paper, being allowed to use his own 
taste as to the design chosen — it may be 
bird, animal or simply an outline. 

A strip of black cambric has been fast- 
ened to the wall, and a paper of pins pro- 
vided. As the guests finish their work they 
are given a certain portion of the cambric 
on which to make a display. 

After all the work is on display, a com- 
mittee is appointed by the hostess for the 
purpose of deciding which exhibit is en- 
titled to a premium, a blue ribbon ; second 
and third premiums should also be given. 
These exhibits will be found to be most 
grotesque and laughable. 

At the conclusion of this game a new 
one known as "Scissors" may be intro- 
duced. The players are seated in a circle ; 
one person who understands the game is 
handed a pair of scissors; he takes the 
scissors saying, "I receive these, scissors 
crossed (or uncrossed as the case may be) 
and pass them crossed" (or uncrossed), 
then passes them to his neighbor who re- 
peats the sentence, being careful, however, 
in his statement as to how he receives them 
and how he passes them. The game is not 
in the crossing or uncrossing of the blades 
of the scissors, as is supposed, but in the 
arrangement of the feet of the person who 
receives and passes them. If the person 
who passes the scissors is sitting with feet 



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A STATE SOCIAL. 



crossed, then the scissors are received 
crossed; if the person to whom he passes 
them sits with uncrossed feet, that person 
receives them uncrossed. This game is 
most . puzzling until the "catch" is dis- 
covered. 



A STATE SOCIAL. 

IHIS social will require a number of 
young ladies, fancifully dressed, one 
to represent each of the states of the 
United States. In choosing the costume 
some article should be worn that may serve 
as a key to unlock the. mystery of the state 
represented, as a hair ornament in the 
form of a star will represent Texas, the 
"Lone Star State;" state flowers may be 
worn as ornaments, thus the lady slipper 
would represent Minnesota. 

Cards and pencils are provided the 
guests, upon which they record their 
guesses as to the states represented; each 
lady wears ori her right shoulder a num- 
ber ; the guesses are recorded according to 
these numbers. Thrirty minutes are al- 
lowed for the completion of the list. At 
the close of this time a correct list is read 
and the lists are checked, the contestant 
having the most complete list receiving 
honorable mention. 

After this part of the evening's enter- 
tainment is finished the following State 
Puzzle is distributed, the answers being 
the abbreviation of states: 
1 — Which state would Noah prefer? 

(Ark.) 
2 — Which one is preferred by Catholics ? 

(Mass.) 
3 — Which one is "as good as a mile?" 

(Miss.) 
4 — Which is "mightier than the sword ?" 

(Penn.) 
5 — Which do people dread, yet are not 

able to control? (111.) 
— Which does No. 5 require? (Md.) 
7 — Which is equal to two five-dollar gold 

pieces? (Trim.) 
8— Which is worth nothing? (0.) 



9 — Which is an expression of sadness ? 
(Alas.) 
10 — Which one is to peruse? (Conn.) 
11 — Which is used by musicians? (La.) 
12— Which refers to self ? (Me.) 
13 — Which is unmarried? (Miss.) 
14 — Which is sought by miners? (Ore.) 
15 — Which is a Chinese industry? 
(Wash.) 
Another game of states may be ar- 
ranged by displaying objects to represent 
the popular or nick-names of the states of 
our union. These articles should be num- 
bered and arranged on a table: 
1 — A sunflower will suggest Kansas, the 

"Sunflower State." 
2 — A bouquet of flowers, Florida, the 

"Land of Flowers." 
3 — A nutmeg, Connecticut, the "Nutmeg 

State." 
4 — A buckeye, Ohio, the "Buckeye State. 
5 — Several pictures of former presidents, 
Virginia, the "Mother of Presi- 
dents." 
6 — A sprig of evergreen, Maine, the 

"Pine Tree State." 
7 — A bunch of sage, Nevada, the "Sage 

Brush State." 
8 — A picture of Benj. Franklin, Tennes- 
see, the "Old Franklin State." 
9 — An ear of corn, with a cracker lying 
across it, Kentucky, "Corn Cracker 
State." 
10 — A bunch of cotton, Alabama, the 

"Cotton State." 
11 — A silver coin, "Old Bullion," Missis- 
sippi. 
12 — A few sprigs of grass, Kentucky, the 

"Old Blue Grass State." 
13 — A picture of a beaver, Oregon, 

"Beaver State." 
14 — A baby's bottle, Illinois, the "Sucker 

State." 
15 — A fragment of rock, New Hampshire, 

the "Granite State." 
1G — A cup of water discolored with black 
ink, Nebraska, the "Black Water 
State." 
17 — The Long handle of a frying-pan, West 
Virginia, "Pan-Handle State." 



A TWENTY-FIVE CENT SOCIAL. 



18 — A bottle, of turpentine, North Caro- 
lina, the "Turpentine State." 

19 — A silver article, Nevada, the "Silver 
State." 

20 — A discarded fishing line, Maryland, 
the "Old Line State." 

After all guesses have, been recorded a 
correct list is read and the lists checked; 
a prize is given the most successful con- 
testant in this game. 

Pretty boutonnieres made of the state 
flower in which the social is held are ap- 
propriate souvenirs. 



A THANKSGIVING PARTY. 

IlIIS should be made an old-time fes- 
tive, occasion. The invitation cards 
should be oblong in shape, and contain 
aside from the usual wording a pen pic- 
ture of a turkey and beneath these words : 
"A Thanksgiving Meet." 

The amusements may be in the form of 
old-time frolics; a "taffy-pull" or a pop- 
corn party would be in form ; in any event 
of this kind let the guests do all the work : 
Hull the corn, pop it and make it into the 
balls ; they will enjoy the novelty. 

Chestnuts may be roasted in the hot 
ashes of the grate, apples likewise. 

For games we suggest the old-time 
"Charades," with plenty of "dressing" 
and amateur theatricals. Another old- 
time game is conundrums; these should 
be as new as possible. 

Shadow pictures, using scenes from the 
lives of the Puritans, the originators of 
Thanksgiving Day, may be enacted. For 
these pictures a sheet should be drawn 
across a doorway, with a lamp arranged 
in such manner that the shadows will fall 
without interruption on the sheet. 



-Messages from absent friends. 



A TWENTY-FIVE CENT SOCIAL. 

ROVIDE each guest with a quarter 
of a dollar, a lead-pencil and a 
slip of paper on which the following list 



has been type-written — allow space for 
answers. After having distributed these 
allow a stated length of time for each guest 
to complete, the lists. The named list is 
to be found on the faces of the coin. 

1 — A tropical fruit. 

2 — Flowers. 

3 — An organ of the body. 

4— Top of a hill. 

5 — Affirmative answers. 

6 — Negative answers. 

7 — A weapon of warfare. 

8 — A breast-plate. 

9 — Theatrical attachments. 
10 — Term used in speaking of marriage. 
11 — An unlucky number. 
12 — A possession of the American boy. 
13 — A place of worship. 
14- 

15 — A wild animal. 
16 — A young lady's cherished possession. 
17 — Punishments. 

18 — A sailor's measurement of distances. 
19 — A school-boy's horror. 
20 — Our glory and pride. 
21 — Parts of a river. 
22 — The divisions of a country. 
23 — Millinery adornments. 
24 — An emblem. 

25 — One-fourth part of an object. 
26 — Units of measurement. 
27 — Part of a violin. 
28 — The reward of victory. 
29 — A bird of prey. 
30 — A short story. 

KEY TO ABOVE. 

(1) Date, (2) tulips, (3) ear, (4) brow, 
(5) eyes — ayes, (6) nose, (7) arrow, (8) 
shield, (9) stars, (10) U. S., (11) 13, 
(12) cheek, (13) temple, (14) letters, 
(15) hare — hair, (16) beau — bow, (17) 
stripes, (18) knot, (19) numbers, (20) 
America, (21) a branch, also mouth, (22) 
states, (23) feathers, (24) eagle, (25) a 
quarter, (26) feet, (27) neck, (28) 
wreath, (29) eagle, (30) tale— tail. 

A reward may be given the person first 
completing the list correctly. 



A WEEK SOCIAL 



A VEGETABLE SOCIAL. 

I HE rooms in which this social is held 
may be decorated with vegetables. 
Adopt a color scheme ; the reception room 
may be in yellow — yellow cheesecloth 
makes beautiful soft draperies, and is inex- 
pensive; catch these draperies back with 
long strands of yellow corn strung on fine 
thread ; use the yellow pumpkins, carrots, 
mangoes, and sheaves of wheat and oats. 
The parlor may be in red; use the red 
cheesecloth and red corn, red peppers, 
beets, and cranberries will furnish ample 
material for decoration. The dining-room 
may be in green, using the feathery as- 
paragus and other available greens here. 
.For amusements provide, vegetable games. 
Hang an ear of corn from a hook in the 
ceiling, have each guest guess as to the 
number of grains it contains. Next have 
a "bean grab;" this is played by provid- 
ing a large dish of green beans, let each 
guest "grab" a handful of beans, count 
the number, and return the beans to the 
dish ; another now "grabs," and so on until 
all have tried. A record should be kept 
so that it may be known whose, "grab" was 
the largest. Now provide two very large, 
smooth potatoes, as nearly the same size 
as possible, also two dessert spoons. The 
company is now divided into two parts or 
sides; one, person from each side is cho- 
sen ; the game is to pick the potato up on 
the spoon, using but one hand, and balanc- 
ing it so that it may be carried to the 
opposite side of the room without falling 
from the spoon ; if one fails another of his 
division takes his place. 

Now pass pencils and paper, together 
with a list of the following disguised vege- 
tables, for a test game : 

1 — What a lady said to a tramp. (Man- 
go.) 

2 — What some people are said "not to 
know." (Beans.) 

3 — What a young lady said to her lover, 
who urged a secret marriage. 
(Canteloupe — Can't elope.) 



4 — What defective roofs do. (Leak.) 
5 — A name sometimes applied to dull 

people. (Cabbage.) 
6 — What an old lady said to a young 

man who strangled while drinking 

beer. (You artichoke — ought to 

choke. ) 
7 — That which afflicts our feet. (Corn.) 
8 — What a bee that was searching for 

honey said. (Cauliflower.) 
9 — A duty assigned a pupil by a teacher. 

(Pars-nip.) 
10 — That of which young ladies are fond. 

(Cress — Caress.) 



A WHITE CAP SOCIAL. 

IHIS social should be attended by all 
sorts of "white caps." A white cap 
orchestra, composed of a chorus of young 
people, each attired in white surplices, 
and college caps, should furnish the music. 

Twelve little girls attired in white night 
dresses and night caps should give a candle 
drill. 

A quartet of little girls wearing the 
white apron and cap of a nurse girl should 
rock their dolls to sleep to some pretty 
lullaby songs. A trio of young men dressed 
to represent Syrians in native costumes 
and white turbans should perform juggling 
tricks. 

Part of the young ladies may represent 
colonial maidens, wearing Puritan caps, 
others may be white-capped grandmothers. 

Last but not least white-capped serving 
maids may serve refreshments to the as- 
sembly. 



A WEEK SOCIAL. 

HIS social is intended to carry out the 
old idea : 



"Monday to wash, 
Tuesday to iron, 

Wednesday to bake and to mend; 
Thursday to call, 
Friday to clean, 



AN EASTER PARTY FOR CHILDREN. 



And Saturday to all work attend. 

And Sunday, the day our Father had 

blessed, 
By giving His children much needed 

rest." 

The guests are requested to dress to 
represent some particular day of the week ; 
Monday being wash day, it may be repre- 
sented by washer women, carrying tiny 
tubs; Tuesday may be represented by 
laundry maids and "Chinese washee- 
men." Wednesday brings an array of 
cooks, chefs, bakers and sewing maids; 
Thursday is a "full-dress" day ; Friday for 
the busy maids and housewives with broom 
and dusters ; Saturday may be represented 
by all classes — cooks, coachmen, "mending 
mothers," grocers, butchers, etc., while 
Sunday brings the preachers and priests, 
together with the sisters of charity, etc. 

The entertainment for this affair may 
be varied. A pretty tableau may be 
prepared by having seven little girls, each 
dressed to represent the old rhyme: 

"Monday's child is fair of face, 
Tuesday's child is full of grace, 
Wednesday's child is merry and glad, 
Thursday's child is sorry and sad; 
Friday's child is loving and giving, 
Saturday's child works hard for a living ; 
But a child that is born on the Sabbath 

day 
Is lucky and bonny and wise and gay." 

A game modeled after the old card game 
"Snap" may be introduced. Prepare a 
quantity of little, pasteboard squares; on 
each of which write the days of the week. 
These cards should be separated into books 
of four cards each. Sunday should be 
reserved for the "snap" card. The cards 
are dealt out, three to each person ; each 
person then lays a card on the table, in 
turn; this continues until a "snap" or 
Sunday card is laid on the table, when the 
person who lays this card down calls out 
"snap," and takes all cards on the table. 
If any player calls "snap" before the per- 



son playing the card has done so the cards 
belong to him. 

Another game is a "Summary of 
Events." Seven persons are chosen, each 
to represent a day of the week; a contest 
ensues to find which can bring forward 
the greatest number of important events 
happening on a certain day. These events 
are numbered, and the person having the 
largest number is announced winner of the 
contest. 



AN EASTER PARTY FOR CHILDREN. 

VEKY pleasant Easter social may 
be planned for the little ones, if we 
but go to far off Germany for our plan of 
entertainment. Tiny Easter trees find 
favor among the little ones of that land, 
and we doubt not would be as cordially 
welcomed by the little ones of our own 
land. This tree should be a tiny ever- 
green, loaded with bright-hued easter-eggs, 
confectionery and Easter favors; text- 
cards and booklets may also find a place 
in the adornment. To make a real Ger- 
man festival the tiny candy bunnies must 
not be omitted. There is a very sweet 
little legend cherished by German children 
concerning this Easter rabbit. Once upon 
a time, so the story goes, a nice, kind 
rabbit who was walking along a quiet wood- 
land road, came across a fine, large nest 
filled with eggs. The poor mother-hen had 
been seized by a wicked fox, and could not 
go back to her darling nest, so this kind 
rabbit slept all night upon it, and when 
he awoke in the morning, Easter morn- 
ing, the nest was full of little downy 
chickens. The chickens thought that the 
rabbit was their own dear mother, so they 
cried for something to eat, and the rabbit 
ran about and fetched food for them, and 
kept them warm and fed until they were 
old enough to care for themselves. 

Ever since then the rabbit has been the 
especial genius of the Easter time, and 
this holiday is not complete for the Ger- 
man little folks without the dear little rab- 



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A BEAN KING'S FESTIVAL. 



bit's nest. It holds many a favor and 
present, serving the same purpose for 
them that our Christmas stocking does for 
our little people. It is a part of the Easter 
tree and when the tree has been decorated 
they place the Easter nest, with the Easter 
rabbit thereon, at the foot of the tree. 
Then all join hands and dance around the 
tree, nest, rabbit and all. 

After gathering the children about you 
and telling them this little German Easter 
legend, you may announce to them that a 
nest is hidden in one of the rooms, and 
that for the lucky person or persons who 
find same will be found gifts for both 
himself and little friends. You may be 
sure that no further invitation will be 
needed, for the merry hunt will imme- 
diately begin. The nest, or basket, should 
contain some simple toy for each member 
of the party. 

Another pretty amusement is to fashion 
egg-shaped packages from bright colored 
tissue paper, each containing sweet-meats, 
pop-corn or nuts ; these bags are made fast 
to a hoop, which is wound with bright scar- 
let ribbon, and the hoop fastened to a hook 
in the center of the ceiling or to the gas 
fixture; a soft kindergarten ball is pro- 
vided which each child in turn throws at 
the packages; if he strikes one it is his, 
if he misses, the child who first gets the 
ball gets the next throw. 

The refreshment table should be prettily 
decorated ; in the center place a real candy 
"biddy" hen, brooding over a nestful of 
prettily colored candy eggs. From this 
center to each of the four corners place a 
row of chocolate mice, one, seemingly, fol- 
lowing the other. An Easter cake, iced in 
white and bearing on its top a beautiful 
candy bunny, should occupy one end, while 
the other may be devoted to a heap of red- 
el locked apples. The menu should be 
simple, consisting of ice-cream, served in 
c<ro- shapes, cake and lemonade ; sandwiches 
may be added if desired. 

Pretty souvenirs, in the form of fluffy 
chickens, should be provided for each lit- 
tle guest. 



A BEAN KING'S FESTIVAL. 

(Twelfth Night Entertainment) 

HE Bean King's Festival is a social 
rite principally observed in France 
and Germany, but may be adapted, with 
much enjoyment, by any organization of 
young people. 

The guests should be attired in all man- 
ner of fantastic costumes and represent 
courtiers, clowns, pinafore maidens, char- 
acters from "Alice in Wonderland," etc. 

A large cake is provided in which a bean 
has been hidden in the baking; on arrival 
of the guests the cake is cut" into pieces, 
and distributed; the, guest who receives 
the portion containing the bean is pro- 
claimed "King of Misrule," and rules the 
evening. 

A throne has been erected, and a crown 
of gilt paper provided; the King is 
crowned and seated on the throne. He 
holds a scepter, and any order given by 
him must be obeyed. Every guest will be 
required to do something to contribute to 
the fun of the evening ; the most amusing 
form of this entertainment is usually in 
the form of forfeits, which the King pro- 
claims, and are put into execution by his 
subjects. Among these forfeits may be 
mentioned : Walking around the room and 
bestowing, alternately, a smile and a frown 
on each person present. Repeating a 
stanza of poetry, counting each word, as 
Little (1) Jack (2) Horner (3) sat (4) in 
(5) the (6) corner (7), etc. 

Sing in one corner, laugh in another, 
weep in another, and yawn in another. 

Kiss your shadow on the wall. 

Walk across the room, by placing the 
heel of one foot directly against the toe 
of the other, and so continuing across the 
room. 

Blindfold two persons, seat them facing 
each other, provide each with a bowl of 
cracker crumbs and a dessert spoon, and 
require them to feed one another, three 
spoonfuls each. 

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the form of a box-lid without sides, place 
it on a table and blow it over. 

Whistle three airs without stopping; 
one a church hymn, the other a popular 
song, and the third a waltz air. 

When refreshments are announced, the 
King leads the grand march to the din- 



hall, bearing 



high 



over his head a 



wonderful pie, made in a large dish-pan. 
(This pie is made of saw-dust and covered 
with brown tissue paper, to simulate pas- 
try.) Arriving at the dining-table the pie 
is placed thereon, then at the order of the 
King all continue the march around the 
table, each in turn as he reaches the point 
nearest the pie "sticking in his thumb, 
and pulling out a plum," said "plums" 
consisting of all sorts of amusing articles 
wrapped in brown paper. After all have 
received plums, the order is given to be 
seated, and the unwrapping begins, much 
merriment resulting. 

The refreshments provided should be as 
unique as possible, sandwiches cut in odd 
shapes, sherbets served in silver thimbles, 
etc. If desired the remaining portion of 
the evening may be passed in dancing. 



AN EXCHANGE PARTY. 

VERY person has in his possession 
^ some article that it would be a satis- 
faction to get rid of, if this could be done 
without the sin of wastefulness laid to his 
account; some bit of furniture or apparel, 
bric-a-brac or fancy work, which he has' 
become thoroughly tired of, but which is 
too good to throw away. It may be an 
ink stand in the shape of a fat, green frog 
that was secured by a lucky number at a 
church raffle, or some equally hideous ob- 
ject won in the many social ways. Every 
household has several such articles, and 
a new and lively sort of evening entertain- 
ment may be evolved from them. The 
object of the merry-making being to pass 
off your objectionable possession upon 
some fellow-player, who, in turn, tries to 
victimize you. From this is derived the 
name "Exchange Party." 



In arranging an amusement of this 
kind the guests are requested to bring with 
them such articles as they especially wish 
to be rid of, no matter how hideously ugly 
and unappreciated they may be ; this will 
only add to the amusement of the occasion. 

Each article should be wrapped as al- 
luringly as possible, packed in a fancy 
box or enveloped in white paper, tied with 
fancy ribbons ; for of course in order to be 
rid of such object their real character 
must be disguised as thoroughly as pos- 
sible. The players must consent to take 
the articles on a venture, not being per- 
mitted to examine same until the exchange 
has been irrevocably made. 

Cords or ribbon should be tied loosely, 
as each article will be opened many times 
as it is exchanged from hand to hand, for 
as a matter of fact each person who re- 
ceives a particularly objectionable article 
will endeavor to "work it off" on another 
member of the party. No passing is 
done until the last guest has arrived; 
punctuality should be requested in the in- 
vitations. When all are arrived a bell 
sounds the signal for the exchange to be- 
gin. 

It would be hard to imagine a gayer 
scene than an Exchange Party in full 
swing; the. blandishments and rose-col- 
ored descriptions of those who have par- 
ticularly dreadful articles to dispose of 
are mingled with the outspoken regrets of 
others who have gained a greater evil than 
the one disposed of. There are cross-ex- 
aminations worthy of law courts, broken 
by the irrepressible chuckles of the person 
who has succeeded in getting rid of some 
undesirable trinket. An hour and a half 
may be allowed for the exchanges, which 
is concluded by the ringing of the bell; 
whatever object the player holds when the 
bell rings is the object he has gained by 
the. evening's exchanges. All articles thus 
acquired must be carried home by the win- 
ners, or, at least, taken from the house 
in which the amusement is given. 

A pleasing feature of this entertain- 
ment is that it needs no preparation on the 



A UNIQUE VALENTINE PARTY. 



part of the hostess to find amusement for 
her guests. Of course, if desired, she. may 
serve light refreshments, or prepare some 
simple souvenir for the occasion. 



A SUNSHINE LUNCHEON. 

fT was my good fortune to recently at- 
tend a club luncheon of twenty covers, 
at the home of one of the members of the 
Women's Social Club. That others may 
be benefited from my observations I hereby 
give a description of the decorations, also 
the menu served. 

The mahogany table, polished like a 
mirror, had a centerpiece of fine Honiton 
lace over yellow silk, upon which was 
placed a cut-glass rose-bowl filled with 
beautiful yellow roses and sprays of as- 
paragus fern. There were lace doilies of 
different sizes, all with the yellow peeping 
through in the most fascinating manner, 
partly covered with cut-glass dishes of 
fancy shapes filled with salted almonds, 
olives and yellow bonbons. The silver, 
glistening in the rays of yellow candles 
beneath their corn-hued, fluffy shades, 
added to the effect of the beautiful table. 
The hostess was clad in a beautiful din- 
ner gown of yellow silk, fashioned after 
the latest mode, and wore yellow roses as 
ornaments. Most of the guests had taken 
a hint from the name of the luncheon, and 
all wore more or less yellow in the com- 
bination of their costumes. 

THE MENU. 

Oranges. 

Clam Bouillon. Whipped Cream. 

Spiced Cherries. Creamed Potatoes. 

Celery. 

Cold Tongue. Veal Loaf. 

Currant Jelly. Wafers. Cottage Cheese. 

Brown Bread. Cream Bolls. 

Chicken Salad. French Cream. 

Coffee. 

Baited Almonds. 

Yellow Bonbons. 

The beauty of the menu was its sim- 



plicity, also in the serving, which was 
faultless. The souvenirs consisted of long- 
stemmed yellow roses, tied with yellow 
ribbon. 



A UNIQUE VALENTINE PARTY. 

HE following unique Valentine Party 
was described in a recent issue of the 
Woman's Home Companion : 

The invitations were a captivating fea- 
ture of the affair. They were dainty tri- 
angular notes, sealed with red wax and 
stamped with a torch design. On opening 
them a formal invitation appeared for St. 
Valentine's eve, at eight o'clock, plus two 
quaint suggestions — 

"Hearts are trumps." 

"No previous attachment considered." 

A tiny colored beau, dressed in a mail- 
carrier's costume of blue denim, met us at 
the door. Over his shoulder swung a huge 
leather pouch, from which he drew letters 
and gave to us as we entered the hall. 
They were big, heart-shaped affairs of 
crepe tissue paper — white for the girls and 
crimson for the men — tied with crimson 
ribbon. Within we found the daintiest of 
heart-card programmes, a list of numbers 
from 1 to 12 on one side and a silhouette 
on the other. 

In the archway between parlor and 
library hung a long curtain of black calico, 
with a huge white muslin heart stitched 
on in the center, where the black was cut 
away. The curious comments regarding 
it subsided when the hostess sent the 
twelve men into the library, while the 
twelve girls remained in the parlor. The 
lamps were then put out, save one lamp 
in the library. 

"Now watch that heart," was tbe com- 
mand of the hostess, "and whe.i you 
recognize a profile, write the name on your 
card according to the number, without 
allowing any one to see it." 

There was some, whispering and chuck 
ling behind the tightly stretched blae- 
enrtain; then in a moment a clear profit 



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59 



appeared silhouetted on the white space. 
We had only a moment in which to de- 
cide whose it might be before the head 
was withdrawn and another appeared. 
When each man had taken his turn the 
lamp was brought into the parlor and the 
girls proceeded to pose for recognition. 
This gave the boys the easier task, one 
would suppose; but the inevitable pom- 
padour and low-necked gown helped little 
toward recognition. 

When each girl had passed before the 
revealing curtain it was drawn aside and 
the two rooms compared notes, while the 
hostess bestowed a sketch and a heart- 
shaped bonbonniere on the best guessers 
and consoled those with lowest records 
with a Cupid scarfpin and a bracelet of 
wire strung with mottled peppermint 
hearts. 



AN EVENING WITH SHAXESPEARE. 

|Ta recent meeting of a literary club 
the subject was the life and works 
of Shakespeare. An impromptu pro- 

I gramme was carried out, the principal fea- 
ture of which was a description of that 
part of the country in which he lived, 
given by a noted lecturer, lately returned 
from a visit to the continent, and a guest 
of the club. Among the features of the 
entertainment was a Shakespearean 
Spread, and it is of this feature that I 
wish to tell you. 

The color scheme was white and scarlet. 
The long table was laid with heavy white 
damask. In the center was placed a 
round mirror, and on it was placed a tall 
cut-glass vase filled with white roses; on 
either side of this were smaller vases filled 
with scarlet roses. At each end of the 
table a candelabrum bore scarlet wax can- 
dles. There were twenty covers, nine at 
either side and one at each end. Place- 
cards, bearing the name of the guest, were 
laid on the edges of the napkins. The 
following menu was served. * 



MENU. 

Oysters on the Half-Shell. 
Consomme. Lobster Bisque. 

Fillet of Beef. Green Peas. 
Boast Turkey. 

Lettuce Salad. 

Roman Punch. 

Potatoes. Asparagus. Tomatoes. 

Ice-Cream. Strawberries. 

Cake. Coffee. 

Boquefort Cheese. 

THE MENU CARDS. 

The menu were of cardboard of six 
pages each, and tied together with scarlet 
ribbon. The outside page bore the name 
of the club and the date; the second bore 
this quotation just above the name of the 
guest of honor : 

"You are welcome to our house ; 
It must appear in other ways than 
words." 

— Merchant of Venice. 
The third page bore the names of other 
guests or club members, headed with this 
quotation : 

"Find these persons out whose names are 
written here." 

— Romeo and Juliet 
The fourth page read: 

Oysters on the Half- Shell. 
Consomme. Lobster Bisque. 

"I hope we shall drink down all unkind- 
ness." 

— Merry Wives of Windsor. 
"The imperious seas breed monsters/' 

— Cymbelinc. 
Fillet of Beef. Green Peas. 

"Our old and faithful friend, we are glad 
to see you." 

— Measure for Measure. 
"How fresh and green you are." 

— King John. 
The fifth page: 

Roast Turkey. Lettuce Salad. 
"Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods ; 
Now hew him as a caress." 

— Julius Caesar. 



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AN APPLE BLOSSOM LUNCHEON. 



Potatoes. Asparagus. Tomatoes. 

"Under the earth in fragrant glooms I 

dwelt." — Pythagoras. 

"I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in 

it." —Twelfth Night 

The sixth page : 

Ices. Strawberries. Cake. 
u Then farewell heat, and welcome frost." 

— Merchant of Venice. 
"The daintiest last, to make the end most 
sweet." — Richard II. 

Coffee. Roquefort Cheese. 
"I have been acquainted with the smell 
before." 
— Two Gentlemen of Verona. 

The seventh page: 
"May more such days as these to us be- 
fall." — King Henry VI. 
"Good night ! Smile once more !" 
— King Lear. 
"God give you good-night !" 
—All's Well That Ends Well. 



A FEBRUARY DINNER PARTY. 

BEAUTIFUL Red and Gold Din- 
ner Party was recently given as a 
Valentine fete by a wealthy lady of this 
city. The guests numbered one hundred. 
The dinner was served from numerous 
small tables; the dining-room was deco- 
rated in red and gold hangings ; the table 
decorations consisted of a sunken mirror 
for the center of each, in which the center- 
piece of orchids was reflected. Crystal 
candelabra held the candles and small cut- 
glass dishes the bonbons. For each lady 
there was a bunch of red roses tied with 
rose-colored ribbons, and for each gentle- 
man a boutonniere of carnations. 

The menu was perfect, as the following 
card will show: 

Buzzard Bay Oysters on the Half-Shell. 

Clear Green Turtle Soup. 

Saddle of Mutton, with Fresh Green Peas 

and New Potatoes. 

Canvas Duck, with Currant Jelly. 



Lettuce Salad. 

Ices with Turtle Doves on Top. 

Heart-Shaped Cakes. 

Fruit. Candied Fruit. 

Coffee. 

After dinner various amusements were 
provided. One pretty new conceit was a 
jinriksha, into which a girl mounted, 
holding over herself a big Japanese para- 
sol, while her partner chose four men; 
two at each pole, they wheeled her around 
the room. Then she gave to each a paper 
chrysanthemum. 



AN APPLE BLOSSOM LUNCHEON. 

YOUNG girl recently entertained 
the members of her club at an 
Apple-Blossom Luncheon. The name was 
given from the decorations used. The 
invitation cards bore in the upper right- 
hand corner a beautiful spray of apple- 
blossoms done in water-colors. The menu 
cards were likewise decorated, and bore in 
the upper left-hand corner the words, 
taken from the old nursery rhyme — 

"Little apple-blossom, 
Just arrived in town, 
Wears a light-green bonnet 
And a snowy gown." 

The mahogany table was bare, except 
for the exquisite lace doilies used on its 
polished surface; the blossoms were ar- 
ranged in a long, low oval centerpiece; 
one perfect spray was placed' in each 
finger-bowl, brown stem and all. The din- 
ing-room was decorated in these beautiful 
blossoms, long branches and sprays of 
which were placed over pictures and mir- 
rors, while the upper bank of the side- 
board was banked with them ; a tiny spray, 
tied with narrow white ribbon, was placed 
on each snowy napkin. 

The menu was prepared to carry out 
flie color scheme, which was accomplished 
admirably, oaeh dish seeming to have the 
exact shade of color necessary to blend 
with (lie decorations. 



A BROWNING LUNCHEON. 



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THE MENU. 

Bouillon. 

Radishes. Parmesan Cheese. 

Salmon Timbles. Dressed Cabbage. 

Cold Tongue Sandwiches. 
Snowball Croquettes. Bechamel Sauce. 

Rolls. Guava Jelly. Olives. 

Peach Bomb. Watermelon Cake. 

Magic Cherries. 

Chocolate. 



A BROWNING LUNCHEON. 



NE of the prettiest and daintiest of 
club luncheons given during the sea- 
son was a Browning Luncheon, given at 
the home of one of the members. The 
menu was most simple, but beautifully 
planned and served. The invitation cards 
bore in addition to the usual wording the. 
words, "A Browning Buttercup Lunch- 
eon." A tiny pen-drawing of this pretty 
flower occupied one corner and at the lower 
left-hand corner of the card were the fol- 
lowing words, taken from Browning's 
"Home Thoughts From Abroad" : 

"The buttercups, the little children's 
dower — 
Far brighter than this gaudy melon 
flower." 

The luncheon was a noonday affair, and 
the decorations were in yellow, the floral 
decorations consisting of buttercups and 
long-stemmed grasses. The polished ma- 
hogany table was bare save for the heavy 
Battenberg centerpiece and plate doilies. 
In the center of the table, resting on the 
Battenberg, was a beautiful crystal rose- 
bowl filled with buttercups and feathery 
grasses. In the finger-bowls floated a 
single large old-fashioned garden butter- 
cup. The following menu was served : 

Bouillon in Cups. 

Bread Sticks or Wafers. 

Fish Cutlets. Cream Sauce. 

Bread. 

Broiled Chops. Scalloped Potatoes. 

Lettuce, French Dressing. 



Wafers. Cream Cheese. 

Whipped Cream. Ladies' Fingers. 

Coffee. 

The menu cards were of cream-colored 
water-color paper and contained six pages. 
The first page contained the date of the 
meeting and the names of host and hostess. 
.■■* The second page, the following appro- 
priate quotation: 

"You're my friend — 
1 What a thing friendship is, world with- 
out end." 

— The Flight of the Duchess. 

Third page: 

Bouillon in Cups. 
Bread Sticks or Wafers. 
"But who could have expected this ?" 
— By the Fireside. 
"Once hold of you, these jaws want no 
fresh hold." — The Glove. 

Fish Cutlets. Cream Sauce. 

Bread. 
"Such plenty and perfection never was." 
— Love Among Ruins. 
"No finer goods i' the world." 

— Caliban Upon Setebos. 

Fourth page: 
Broiled Chops. Scalloped Potatoes. 

"Leave the flesh to the fate it was fit for." 

— Saul. 

"So deep in the dust and the dark." 

— Life in Love. 

Lettuce, French Dressing. 

"So cool and green." 

— The Statue and the Bust. 

Fifth page: 

Wafers. Cream Cheese. 

"All good things are ours." 

— Rabbi Ben Ezra. 
"Taste this half of a curd-white smooth 
cheese-ball." 

— The Englishman in Italy. 
^Yhipped Cream. Lady Fingers. 

Coffee. 
"Sure to taste sweetly." 

— The Laboratory. 



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MY LADVS WORK BOX. 



"The pasture honey-bee drops no sweeter 
sweet." — Cleon. 

"The cup is ruby rimmed." 

— Women and Roses. 
Sixth page. 

"Live long and happy. Farewell." 

— Cleon. 
"Oh, would that we might keep thee !" 

— Saul. 
"Your hand, sir, and good-bye." 

— Fra Lippo Lippi. 



A MUSICAL MEDLEY. 

fHE new "musical medley" is a su- 
preme favorite this season, so says 
Mary Dawson, in the Woman's Home 
Companion for the. month of May. 

Invitations are written upon little sheets 
of note paper, on each of which a bar of 
music is sketched with pen and ink. It 
adds to the piquancy of the feature if 
these bars are real melodies from some 
popular or classical song. 

The guests receive pretty note-books and 
pencils. The programme of the evening 
remains a mystery until the. last guest has 
arrived. 

When the company is complete a small 
table is produced on which the following 
articles are displayed: 
1 — A letter sheet inclosed in a small en- 
velope. (Note.) 
2 — A yardstick or tape measure. (Meas- 
ure.) 
3 — A small quantitv of pitch in a saucer. 
(Pitch.) 



4 — A fish-scale. * (Scale.) 
5 — A door-key. (Key.) 
6 — Small pieces of twine. (Chords.) 
7 — A thick cane. (Staff.) 
8 — An open knife. (Sharp.) 
9 — A potpourri- jar. (Potpourri.) 
10 — A quire of letter paper. (Choir.) 

Guesses at the hidden meanings are 
written by the players in their note-books, 
the answer being placed opposite the num- 
ber of the object. 

The prize awarded to the player whose 
list of correct answers is most nearly com- 
plete should be a copy of some piece of 
popular music of the day. 

No sooner is this prize awarded than 
the company are whisked away to the 
"Symphony" game. This game consists 
in seeing who can form the greatest num- 
ber of words in a given length of time 
from the letters contained in the word 
"Symphony." The maker of the longest 
list receives a natty music roll. 

The third game in the series is termed 
"Musical Physiognomy." This game is 
played with twenty-five photographs of 
magazine pictures of the famous singers 
of the day. All names are removed, and 
the pictures numbered. These are passed 
from hand to hand, each player writing 
on his list the name of the, person whom 
he recognizes in the photograph. The 
person who has the most correct list is pre- 
sented with a plaster cast of St. Cecelia. 

Next is given the musical game of 
Catching the, Air, which is given in the 
"Hidden Musical," found in another por- 
tion of this work. 



GAMES FOR A CHILD'S EVENING PARTY. 



MY LADY'S WORK-BOX. 



fHIS game is similar to the old favor- 
ite, "Twirling the Platter." Each 
child is given the name of an article found 
in a lady's work-box, as scissors, thimble, 
needle, bodkin, tape, emery, silk, cot- 
tonette. If the. party be large the list may 



be lengthened by naming various articles 
of wearing apparel, which is supposed to 
be being made or mended. The children 
are seated in a circle around the room. 
One child stands in the center, with a 
round tin pie-plate, and twirling it like 
a top says, "My lady must have her 
thimble before I count ten." "Thimble" 



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63 



must then jump and catch the plate be- 
fore the leader has counted ten. Failing 
to do this, "Thimble" must take the center 
and call for any desired article. If, how- 
ever, she does catch it in time the leader 
must call for another article, "and thus 
continue until some person fails to catch 
the plate in time. 



BREAD AND BUTTER. 

SELECT a small article, as a thimble, 
that can be easily hidden. All play- 
ers except one close their eyes and hide 
their faces in their hands. The person 
holding the article then hides it in some 
convenient spot in the room. After it is 
secreted he calls, "Bread and butter; 
please, my lady, come to supper." At this 
all eyes are opened and the search begins. 
A clew is given by announcing that the 
supper is warm, cold, or hot, according 
to the proximity of the searcher to the 
spot where the article is hidden. Once 
found, the person who has been successful 
in the search is allowed to hide it again; 
and so the game continues. 



SHOPPING. 



fHE leader says: "I went shopping 
this morning and everything I 
bought began with C (or any letter de- 
sired). From the druggist I bought 
(points at a child, who must immediately 
respond with some article bought of a 
druggist beginning with the letter C — as 
cologne), from the baker I bought (cookies 
or cake may be the answer), from the 

grocer I bought . And so the lists 

continue until some child fails to answer 
at once, when he must take the place of 
the leader and continue the game, choosing 
any letter desired. 



GRTJNT. 



©NE of the merriest games that chil- 
dren enjoy is the old-time "Grunt." 
The children stand in a circle ; one person 



in the center of the ring is blindfolded 
and given a long cane; the children now 
circle around him, until he gives the signal 
for them to stop — the signal being given 
by thumping smartly on the floor with the. 
cane ; he now stretches forth his cane, and 
the person it touches must take hold of it 
and placing it to his lips give three dis- 
tinct "grunts." From these sounds the 
blindfolded one must guess his identity ; if 
he fails in this, the children resume their 
circling around him, and he is given an- 
other opportunity of guessing; if, how- 
ever, he is successful in his guess, the per- 
son whose identity he has discovered takes 
his place in the center of the circle. 



A BOOK CARNIVAL. 

'HIS may be made a very pleasing as 
well as instructive entertainment for 
the little people. Each child is attired to 
represent the title of a book. Only juve- 
niles should be selected, as this is the ex- 
tent of a child's book knowledge. 

The hostess will have a complete cata- 
logue, in which will be registered the 
names of the children and the book each 
represents. When the guests are assem- 
bled a lively march is indulged in, after 
which pencil and paper are provided and 
the work of guessing the books represented 
begins. Each child should mount the plat- 
form as his name is called by the hostess ; 
then all are given an opportunity to re- 
cord guesses as to what he represents. 
After the guesses are completed a book is 
given the most successful contestant. 

We offer the following list of books and 
the manner of presenting the same : 

1 — "Rose in Bloom" (Alcott) — a pretty 
girl wearing roses as decoration. 

2— "Under the Lilacs" (Alcott)— lilacs 
worn in the hair. 

3— "Little Women" (Alcott)— girls at- 
tired as women. 

4— "Little Men" (Alcott)— boys attired 
as men. 



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5— "The Boy Knight" (Henty)— a boy 
dressed in fancy costume as a 
knight of long ago. 
6 — "Orange and Green" (Henty) — these 

colors combined in dress. 
7 — "The Young Buglers" (Henty) — a 
trio of boys dressed as soldiers and 
carrying bugles. 
8 — "Adventures of a Brownie" (Miss 
Mulock) — a boy attired as a 
Brownie, carrying a book marked 
"Adventures" on the cover. 
9 — "Six to Sixteen" (Ewing) — a young 
girl wearing on different parts of 
her costume ten cards, each of 
which bears one of the numbers 
from six to sixteen. 

10— "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (Burnett) 
— a boy dressed to represent this 
hero. 

11— "An Old-Fashioned Girl" (Alcott)— 
a girl dressed in the style of long 
ago. 

12— "Cat-Tails and Other Tales"— a boy 
carrying a quantity of cat-tails — 
the reed — and a book on whose cov- 
ering is written, "Other Tales." 

13— "Black Beauty" (Sewell)— repre- 
sented by a boy or girl attired as 
a negro. 

14— "A Study in Scarlet" (Doyle)— a, 
girl dressed in a scarlet gown. 

15 — "Sketch Book" (Irving) — a boy 
dressed as an artist and bearing a 
large portfolio marked "Sketch 
Book." 



A BROWNIE PARTY. 

fHE invitation cards bore the word 
"costume" — hence all the Brownies 
were in full dress. 

As Brownies are supposed to be wood 
nymphs, forest games were arranged. The 
social was held on a beautiful lawn, with 
a wide, cool veranda for a resting place 
after the games Avere over. 

In the center of the lawn a long, smooth 
pole fit had been sand-papered and pol- 
ished) was erected; on its top rested a 



bright package, which was said to contain 
a beautiful gift for the Brownie who 
should climb the pole to secure it. This 
was much fun for the little boy Brownies. 

Fastened to the branches of a tall tree 
that stood near the center of the lawn 
were numberless parcels wrapped in 
bright cambric. Long poles were provided, 
by means of which these packages were 
brought to the ground. They were found 
to contain a large quantity of nuts, cracked 
ready for eating. 

After these nuts were disposed of came 
a walnut race. Two rows of walnuts were 
placed at intervals of three feet apart the. 
length of the lawn ; a basket was provided 
for each contestant in the race. These 
baskets were to remain in the same spot 
until after the race was' done, each con- 
testant being required to pick up the wal- 
nuts one at a time and bring them to the 
basket. This was found great sport for 
the. Brownies. 

Large swings and hammocks had been 
provided, and while the boys enjoved the 
race the girls let the "Old Cat Die." (Let- 
ting the swing stop of itself is termed by 
many children letting the old cat die. ) 

Next the whole party had a famous 
game of "Wood Tag." All Brownies ex- 
cept one, the leader, found a small piece 
of wood to stand upon. At the call "Wood 
Tag" by the leader all were required to 
change places. In the change the leader 
secured a piece of the wood and some 
other little Brownie was compelled to be- 
come leader. 



A BEAN SOCIAL. 

iROVIDE some large, flat white 
beans. With a pen and ink mark 
on each bean one of the letters in the sen- 
tence, "New England Pork and Beans." 
Hide these beans in all sorts of places. 
The children are told that twenty-two 
beans are hidden, which they are to find, 
and then the search begins. When all 
beans are found each child is allowed ten 



A GUESS SOCIAL. 



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minutes in which to attempt to form the 
correct sentence with the beans. To the 
successful contestant a small prize is given. 

Prepare a number of brightly colored 
bean bags. All children delight in throw- 
ing bean bags ; an open box may be placed 
at the farthest corner of the room, thus 
becoming the object of the throwing. The 
old-fashioned bean catch will prove as at- 
tractive as anything. 

A large dish of beans is placed on the 
table, and a "bean grab" indulged in, each 
child "grabbing" a handful of the beans, 
then counting to see who has the larger 
number. 

For refreshments serve Boston brown 
beans, brown bread and cocoa or coffee. 



A SPIDER-WEB SOCIAL. 

HE rooms in which this social is held 
should be converted into a huge 
spider-web by weaving and stretching 
white cotton twine about it in every way 
and direction; in some remote corner, 
snugly hidden away, should be attached 
a toy spider. The rules of this game are 
no thread shall be broken, and the person 
who first discovers the spider must walk 
away from the place of concealment and 
cry out "Eureka." This will prolong the 
game until others have an opportunity of 
finding the spider. 

A SPIDER-WEB PUZZLE. 

A spider-web puzzle is next solved. 
Cards on which have been drawn a spider- 
web are cut into many small pieces and 
enclosed in envelopes, a separate envelope 
for each card. These are passed to the 
children and they are required to place 
? the card together in its original form, ten 
minutes being allowed to complete the 
work. 

A blackboard is provided and each child 
in turn is blindfolded and led to the board 
and asked to draw a spider in his web. 
The result will afford much amusement 
for the little ones. 



A GUESS SOCIAL. 

fN this party each little guest repre- 
sents some inanimate object, who is 
discovered only after he has given the his- 
tory of his life. 

Pencils and paper are provided each 
guest; then a basket containing innumer- 
able little slips of paper is passed to each 
guest, one slip of paper being taken by 
each one. On this paper will be found the 
name of the object he personates: Fif- 
teen minutes are given each to write the 
history of his existence; at the close of 
this time all w T riting ceases and the his- 
tories are read, all guessing after each 
reading the object represented. Below we 
give the history of a button as given at 
a social of this kind, held recently : 

For many years I lay imbedded in the 
sand by a river side. I think I must have 
been born there, for I have no remem- 
brance of any sort of a home before that 
time. I was finally dug from my resting 
place, thrown into a cart and carried away 
many miles, where I was placed in a fac- 
tory. Here I was separated from my 
other half — there were formerly two parts 
of me — boiled in a strong acid, then 
scraped and polished. Of course all this 
was very unpleasant, but I have long since 
learned to bear unpleasant things without 
murmuring. 

Now, I was separated into many small 
parts and again smoothed and scraped and 
polished until I must have looked very 
bright indeed. Now I was filled with 
holes — at least I thought at the time that 
I was being filled with them, but I found 
out subsequently that I contained but two. 
I was now, with many companions, fast- 
ened on a square something, packed in a 
tight, black place and sent a long distance 
away. We finally awoke one morning to 
find ourselves in a big store. Here I lay 
for some time until a lady came in and 
purchased me. She took me home with 
her and then it was that the real trials 
of my life began. I was fastened to some- 
thing and then put on a "horrid" boy; 



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lie seemed quite proud of us at first, but 
lie soon went out to play; then how we 
did suffer ! He rolled us in dirt ; he tied 
strings to us when he was flying his kite ; 
he did all sorts of things which only a 
boy knows how to do, but yet I tried to 
keep up my courage and hold fast, but 
there is a limit to everything. One day 
his mother sent him out to watch a little 
calf; now this calf had been taken away 
from its mother and fastened in a sort of 
pen by itself ; it wanted to get away, and 
the boy was sent to see. that it did not ac- 
complish this purpose ; he soon grew tired 
of sitting quietly, so decided to have some 
fun with the calf ; he drew a strong string 
from his pocket, drove the calf into a cor- 
ner and tied the string to its leather collar, 
then he tied the other end of the string 
around me. The calf began to run and 
frisk about ; I tried to hold on, but finding 
that it was impossible I let go and away 
the calf went, and when I peeped up out 
of the grass where I was lying I saw that 
boy lying on the ground where the force 
of the fall had thrown him; he was so 
angry at the poor calf, who had now broken 
out of the pen, that he forgot all about 
me, and so here I am yet in the pleasant 
green grass, where I hope to lie until the 
friendly winds and rain bury me deep in 
the earth from which I sprung. 

(It is hardly necessary to add that the 
foregoing was written by a girl.) 



A HIDDEN SOCIAL. 

j^PIIS is a very original social and will 

$ afford much amusement for the little 
ones. The invitations read as follows: 

"You are invited to attend a Hidden 
Social on next Friday, from 2 to 5 o'clock 
p. m. The house in which this social is 
to be held must be searched for; you will 
recognize it by a tiny American flag which 
will be fastened to the door-knob. Search 
for this Hidden Social. " 

On the day and hour groups of little 
ones will be seen merrily looking for the 



little flag which will indicate to them the 
place where a merry time is to be had, 
and in a short time the house will be 
found. 

For amusements all sorts of hidden 
games should be played. 

A POPCORN HUNT. 

Bags of popcorn should be hidden in 
all sorts of out-of-the-way places — one bag 
for each child. What a happy time they 
will have in finding the hidden dainty, 
and once discovered it will be a double 
surprise in that a rosy-cheeked apple will 
be found hidden in the midst of the corn. 
These will furnish ample refreshments for 
the occasion. 

I SPY. 

This game, so old and yet new in the 
hearts of children, will be found appro- 
priate for the occasion. Each child closes 
his eyes while some member of the party 
hides a thimble in plain sight. When he 
announces "Hunt the thimble," eyes fly 
open and the search begins; qn discover- 
ing the thimble each cries "I spy," yet 
giving no hint to those yet searching where 
it is concealed. The person first "spying" 
is allowed to hide the thimble next time, 
and so the game continues. 

HIDDEN CHILDREN. 

Pencils and paper being provided, the 
following list of Hidden Children are 
given out. The child first completing the 
list is entitled to a small prize, a box of 
confectionery. 
1 — He gave them to me. (Tom.) 
2 — I gave ma rye bread. (Mary.) 
3 — She asked if red hats were worn. 

(Fred.) 
4 — Can he swim a yard ? (May.) 
5 — When rye grows, is it tall \ (Henry.) 
6 — The early bird caught the worm. 

(Earl.) 
7 — I rode a wheel larger than that one. 

(Ella.) 
8 — No ray of light could be seen. (Nora.) 
9 — I will tell ma my troubles. (Amy.) 
10— The truth will be told. (Ruth.) 



A MOTHER GOOSE SOCIAL. 



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A NOSE SOCIAL. 

HIS social is designed for pure and 
f p> simple fun, and that is what the lit- 
tle ones will derive from it. 

A sheet is stretched in the doorway be- 
tween two rooms; the party is divided, 
one-half to remain in one room, the re- 
mainder to pass into the adjoining one; 
now an opening is cut near the center of 
the sheet, just large enough to admit the 
entrance of a little nose. A stool should 
be provided for the smaller children. 

And now the game begins. A little 
person mounts the stool and presses her 
tiny nose through the little opening pre- 
viously made ; the party in the adjoining 
room are. allowed two guesses ; if they are 
successful in their guess, this little one 
must pass over to swell their ranks; on 
the. other hand if they fail in their guess- 
ing the opposite party are entitled to 
choose one of their number; the object of 
the game being to "break up" the opposing 
party. 



CHILDREN'S MAY PARTY. 

niHE invitation cards bear in addition 
to the usual formula, "Bring Flow- 
ers." A large number of little baskets 
should be provided, also some crepe tissue 
paper, that the more original of the guests 
may have an opportunity of fashioning 
their own May baskets. In addition to 
this there should be a quantity of plain 
white visiting cards and a bolt or two of 
pink and white baby ribbon. 

When the children arrive they are given 
the baskets and allowed to use their own 
taste in the arrangement of the flowers ; 
this will prove a delightful task. The 
lowers should be interchanged, that all 
may have a variety to select from. 

The hostess becomes secretary for 
the whole party, writing on one side of the 
card the name and compliments of the 
donor and on the reverse the name of 
the party who is to receive the basket. 



Light refreshments are then served, 
after which the merry troop departs to 
hang the May-baskets. 

MAY PARTY NO. II. 

This party should be held in the open 
air. A May pole should be erected and 
a throne built. The little ones should then 
have the pleasure of selecting their May 
Queen, after which all may join in a merry 
dance around the May pole. 

If the party is held near a wood, a 
search for wild flowers will be a pleasant 
pastime; from the flowers gathered May 
baskets may be made, to brighten the home 
of any poor little sufferer who has been 
unable to join the party. 

For the outdoor party a basket-lunch 
should be prepared ; newspapers spread on 
the ground will answer very well for a 
tablecloth. The pasteboard plates used by 
bakers should be the dishes employed, and 
tiie napkins should be of tissue paper ; 
tliis will do away Avith the unpleasant task 
of packing away dishes, as everything that 
is left may be raked together and with the 
aid of brush and small branches of trees 
a lovely bonfire may be kindled, which the 
children are allowed to enjoy from a dis- 
tance only. 



A MOTHER GOOSE SOCIAL. 

f!N" this party each of the guests is 
dressed to represent one of the Mother 
Goose characters. The part of Mother 
Goose might be assumed by the lady at 
whose home the party is being held, as 
children enjoy anything in which "grown- 
ups" have a part. 

Mother Goose should wear long, flowing 
robes and a tall, pointed cap. When all 
the guests are arrived a fancy march is 
indulged in to the lively music of the 
piano. After the march all are seated and 
Mother Goose asks each a question in 
turn; they answer by repeating the old 
couplet, whose part they represent ; thus 
Little Bo-Peep will answer her question 
by saying : 



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A PRETTY MAW'S BIRTHDAY PARTY. 



"I'm Little Bo-Peep; I've lost my sheep 
And don't know where to find them." 

Mother Goose answers by saying: 
"Let them alone and they'll come home, 
Dragging their tails behind them." 

Some of the favorite characters for the 
boys are: 

"Little Boy Bine." 

"Little Jack Horner. 

"Tommy Tucker." 

"Old King Cole." 

"Jack Be Nimble." 

"Tom, the Piper's Son." 

For the little girls there are: — 

"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." 

"Miss Muffit." 

"Old Mother Hubbard." 

"Three Pretty Maids." 

"Daffy Down Dilly." 

"Little Bed Biding Hood." 

"Pretty Polly." 

An amusing game is "Mother Goose 
is Dead." One player begins by 
saying, "Mother Goose is dead." The one 
addressed asks, "How did she die ?" The 
other replies, "Going this way," and be- 
gins nodding his head very rapidly. The 
person spoken to turns to his neighbor 
and repeats, "Mother Goose is dead," etc., 
who in turn must tell the, news to his 
neighbor, until all heads are wagging, for 
each continues the motion after the news 
has passed on. Children are fond of this 
game, as it contains action. When the 
game has gone once around the circle it 
may be repeated by changing the motion, 
substituting a pat of the foot for the nod- 
ding of the head. 



A PRETTY MAID'S BIRTHDAY PARTY. 

I HIS social will require numerous 
cards cut from ordinary cardboard, 
each bearing the name of some common 
every-day article, of household furniture 
or of animals, birds, etc., as, a dish-towel, 
a baby- jumper, an egg-beater, a pugdog, 



a pet pussy. These cards are distributed 
to the guests, who hold them face down- 
ward and play from the top of the pile, 
reading them in the pauses of the follow- 
ing story. The reading should begin on 
the right of the reader and continue on 
around the circle. As the pauses are filled 
in this haphazard manner, the effect will 
be most comical. 



THE STORY. 



A pretty maiden named 



wished 



to give a birthday party. She accordingly 

made known her wish to her , who 

immediately gave her consent. The little 
at once set about the of 



sending out 



to all her little 

— . These . she wrote on pretty 

and enclosed them in to 

match. She then carried them to the 

and mailed with her own 

. Beturning to her - — , she 



at once sought her 
arrange for the 



and began to 



of her 



First, however, she was to decide what 
dress she would wear. She decided on a 
white , trimmed in . 



Around her 



she would wear a 



, while at her neck should be 

. She would wear in her 

a pretty ; her shoes and 

should be . 



For the entertainment of her guests she 

would provide and and 

. These she was sure they would 



enjoy. For refreshments she would pre- 
pare , , , and pretty 

While for drinks they 
-, and lemon 



boxes of — 
would have 

At last the eventful day arrived, and 

with it many little and . 

They were charmingly received by their 
little , who made each feel per- 
fectly at - — . Although she had never 



dreamed of such a thing, each 

brought some pretty as a reminder 

of the . From her dearest friend, 

Minnie May, was a - — ; Tommy Wal- 
ters brought a 
other 



-, and from various 



were a 



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some 



and a box of 



After all were tired of play, 

appeared bearing trays of , to 

which all did ample justice. 

At a late all departed, voting 

the a decided success and wishing 



for their little 
turns of the — 



many happy re- 



A PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE SOCIAL. 

HE company should be "paired off" 
into couples. Several tables are 
provided, the number being governed by 
the number of guests in attendance. The 
puzzles are arranged on the tables. 

The first table contains a similar puzzle 
for each couple in the room, and thus be- 
gins the test of finding which couples are 
entitled to the first progression. The time 
should be limited, and the first couples to 
finish in the given time are progressed 
on to the second table, and thus continu- 
ing until the. last table is reached. The 
couple making the largest score are entitled 
to the prizes. We suggest the following 
set of puzzles : 

TABLE I. 

Conundrums. 

1 — When is grass like a great general? 
(When it is Dewey.) 

2 — What is the difference between a 
white and a black baby? (One is 
crow shade (crocheted) and the 
other is nit (knit).) 

3 — Which is the west side of a boy's 
pantaloons? (The side the son 
sits on.) 

4 — Mr. M. had ten fine horses; none 
were deformed, yet they had only 
twenty-four feet? (Twenty fore 
feet.) 

5 — Why is a mouse like grass? (Be- 
cause the cat'll eat it. (Cattle.) 

6 — What sort of monkeys grow on grape 
vines? (Gray apes — grapes.) 



TABLE II. 

Cut-Up Puzzles. 

Procure a number of advertising cards. 
These should be cut in pieces, thoroughly 
mixed together and rearranged in the orig- 
inal form. 

TABLE III. 

Keen Scent. 

Procure ten small vials; number each 
and fill with as many different sorts of 
cologne. The contestants must record the 
varieties of cologne, according to number, 
their aid in guessing being the sense of 
smell. 

TABLE IV. 

Disguised Capes. 

1 — A parting cape. (Farewell.) 
2 — A musical cape. (Horn.) 
3 — A fishy cape. (Cod.) 
4 — An encouraging cape. (Good Hope.) 
5 — A royal cape. (Prince of Wales.) 
6 — A monthly cape. (May.) 
7 — A green cape. (Verde.) 
8 — A black cape. (Sable.) 
9 — A fruitful cape. (Orange.) 
10 — A boy's cape. ( Charles or Henry. ) 

table v. 

Hidden Gems. 

1 — He was oh so pale. (Opal.) 
2 — You must get up early. (Pearl.) 
3 — I will rub your hands. (Ruby.) 
4 — The wind blows and I am on deck. 

(Diamond.) 
5 — Five, cents per pound is the price of 

sugar — net price. (Garnet.) 
6 — Look! On top! A zebra is walking 

there! (Topaz.) 

TABLE VI. 

Curtailings. 

1 — Curtail a cooking utensil and leave a 

relative. (Pa-n.) 
2 — Curtail the break of day and leave a 

bird. (Daw-n.) 
3 — Curtail a king's coronet and leave a 

bird. (Crow-n.) 



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A UNITED STATES PARTY FOR JULY FOURTH. 



4 — Curtail a vegetable and leave a busy 

insect. (Bee-t.) 
5 — Curtail a part of a window and leave 

a cooking utensil. (Pan-e.) 
6 — Curtail a vehicle and leave a means 

of transportation. (Car-t.) 



A TREASURE SOCIAL. 

ACH child who attends this social is 
asked to bring with him the toy, 
book or treasure that he likes best. A table 
is arranged to hold the display ; each child 
is then given pencil and paper and asked 
to write a history of the article — that is, 
where it came from, why it is his favorite, 
etc. 

When the histories are completed the 
hostess picks up the treasures at random 
and the child to whom it belongs then 
reads its history. 

After these histories are finished a game 
called a Ships Ashore" is played. A child 
takes a knotted handkerchief, throws it to 
another and announces "Ship's ashore." 
The one to whom it is thrown says, "What 
is it loaded with?" The first person an- 
swers, giving the name of some article, as 
" Apples." If the word given begins with 
A, then all articles named during the 
game must begin with the same letter, 
until it reaches the person who began the 
game ; he can then change the letter. Thus 
the handkerchief continues to be thrown 
from one to another and the game con- 
tinues. 



A CHILDREN'S VALENTINE PARTY. 

fllE materials required for this event 
are several sheets of cardboard in a 
variety of colors, a roll of French tissue 
paper, a quantity of embossed scrap-pic- 
tures, a tiny pot of paste and scissors for 
each guest. 

Cut the cardboard in fancy shapes, di- 
vide the. tissue paper into equal shares and 
place these with a number of the scrap- 



pictures into large envelopes, one for each 
child. 

This party should be held in the nursery 
if the house contains one; if not, cover 
the dining-room carpet with a heavy can- 
vas, put the table out its entire length and 
you are ready for the guests. 

When all are arrived they are shown 
into the dining-room, given a place at the 
table, supplied with a pot of paste, a pair 
of scissors and an envelope. They are 
then told that they are to fashion valen- 
tines to suit their own fancy. This will 
be considered a great treat for the little 
ones. Cloths should be provided for the 
relief of sticky little fingers. 

After all valentines are completed they 
are fastened to the wall, and a vote taken 
to determine who has the prettiest display. 
Next a valentine game, is introduced, as 
follows: An immense heart is cut from 
heavy cardboard ; in the center is fastened 
a picture of a little Cupid. Bows and 
arrows are provided and an archery con- 
test is held to determine who can hit the 
Cupid. The children may be divided 
into two parties and a score card arranged. 
An arrow in the Cupid counting twenty 
points, one in the heart counting ten 
points, and a wild shot— that is, one that 
misses the heart entirely counts five for 
the opposing side. 

Refreshments consisting of ice-cream in 
fancy shapes, tiny heart-shaped cakes, 
fresh fruits and lemonade may be served. 

The children carry home the valentines 
they have made as souvenirs. 



A UNITED STATES PARTY FOR JULY 
FOURTH. 

t UNITED STATES party is one of 
{?$% the cleverest of the many good ways 
of celebrating the glorious Fourth. It is 
one that because of its inexpensive sim- 
plicity can be given by any patriotic 
hostess and enjoyed by any patriotic com- 
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of the evening. No others could he thought 
of. 

The fun of a United States party con- 
sists in seeing which members of the. com- 
pany are best "up" in matters concerning 
their native land. Those present are 
divided into two groups, each of which 
endeavors to defeat the other by answer- 
ing the most questions correctly. 

For the first contest secure at the sta- 
tioner's two blank cards. Decorate these 
at home with a border of tricolor. On 
each one. write these two questions : 

Which were the thirteen original states ? 

By what person or company was each 
founded ? 

Give one card to each division of the 
company. The opponents at once with- 
draw into opposite corners and talk the 
queries over. Twenty minutes are allowed 
in which to discover the answers. The 
division answering the most questions cor- 
rectly has one point toward the final prizes 
set down to its account. 

Our Presidents. — A contest built upon 
"our presidents" is next announced. For 
:his strips of white paper are passed, giv- 
ing the following initials: G. W., J. A., 
T. J., J. M., J. Q. A., M. V. B., W. H. H., 
J. T., J. K. P., Z. T., M. P., P. P., J. B., 
A. L., A. J., U. S. G., K. B. H., J. A. G., 
C. A. A., G. C, B. H., W. McK. 

The players are asked to substitute for 
each set of letters the full name of one 
of the presidents of the republic. The di- 
vision which proves itself most erudite 
receives a point toward the prizes to be 
given at the end. 

The contestants are advised to give, so 
far as they are able, the full name — that 
is, Christian name and surname — of each 
chief executive ; as, in the event of all the 
surnames being correctly given by both 
parties, the fullest list of Christian names 
will win the point in this contest. 

The nicknames of states given to be 
lessed affords another lively bout. The 
Following questions written upon slips of 
paper and passed to each division give the 
nucleus of this trial of skill : What state 



is known as the Badger State ? Wiscon- 
sin. The Bay State ? Massachusetts. 
The Bayou State ( Mississippi. Tin- 
Bear State? Arkansas. The Creole 
State ? Louisiana. The Diamond State ? 
Delaware. The' Empire State ? New 
York. The Excelsior State ? New York. 
The Freestone State? Connecticut. The 
Granite State ? New Hampshire. The 
Green Mountain State % Vermont. The. 
Hawkeye State? Iowa. The Hoosier 
State ? Indiana. The Keystone State ? 
Pennsylvania. The Lake State ? Michi- 
gan. The Lone Star State. ? Texas. The 
Lumber State? Maine. The Nutmeg 
State ? Connecticut. The Old Dominion 
State ? Virginia. The Old North State ? 
North Carolina. The Palmetto State? 
South Carolina. The Peninsula State ? 
Florida. The Prairie. State ? Illinois. 

The workers will probably require half 
an hour for puzzling out these nicknames. 

America has her twelve wonders as well 
as the countries of greater antiquity. How 
many Americans can give these as readily 
as they can name the remarkable things 
to be seen in Europe ? The next number 
on the programme goes to decide this ques- 
tion. Each side is asked to name the 
twelve most wonderful things of North 
America, and to the side showing best 
judgment the coveted "point" is awarded. 

It would be well for the hostess to pre- 
pare in advance a list of the twelve most 
wonderful things, to be used as reference. 
For, while no list can be incontestably cor- 
rect, a standard in playing the game will 
be> necessary. Among the "wonders" the 
following would probably be reckoned 
most notable: Niagara Falls, Mammoth 
Cave, Yosemite Valley, Lake Superior, 
Brooklyn Bridge, Fairmount Park (Phil- 
adelphia), Capitol at Washington, Luray 
Cave, Natural Bridge over Cedar Creek 
(Virginia), Washington Monument, Cen- 
tral Park, and the Missouri River. 

When the "wonder" papers have been 
examined and the winners promoted, play- 
ers are. promptly confronted with an in- 
teresting question-paper on the fictitious 



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HOW SOME JUNIORS HAD FUtf. 



names of cities. The questions used are 
these: What city is called the City of 
Magnificent Distances? Washington, D. 
C. City of Brotherly Love ? Philadelphia. 
City of Churches? Brooklyn. City of 
Elms ? New Haven. The Hub ? Boston. 
City of Rocks? Nashville (Tennessee). 
City of Spindles? Lowell (Massachu- 
setts). City of Straits? Detroit. Cres- 
cent City ? New Orleans. Empire City ? 
New York. Fall City ? Louisville. Flour 
City ? Rochester. Flower City ? Spring- 
field (Illinois). Forest City? Cleveland. 
Garden City ? Chicago. Gate City ? Keo- 
kuk (Iowa). Gotham? New York. Iron 
City? Pittsburg. Monumental City? 
Baltimore. Mound City ? St. Louis. 
Quaker City? Philadelphia. Queen City? 
Cincinnati. City of the Lakes ? Buffalo. 
Railroad City? Indianapolis. Smoky 
City ? Pittsburg. 

With this contest the. mental Olympian 
games come to an end and the papers are 
examined. The points won throughout the 
series are then counted. The corps win- 
ning the most points draw among them- 
selves for the prize. 

Red, white and blue are capable of such 
effective grouping that the patriotic table 
ought to be particularly artistic and at- 
tractive. 

Red and white carnations banked with 
violets form the centerpiece. Instead of 
boutonnieres each participant finds at his 
or her cover a red, white and blue rosette 
with flowing ends. The candies, chosen of 
red, white and violet, are served in little 
"continental" hats. Sandwiches, cakes 
and rolls are tied with tricolor ribbon. Wee 
flags standing upright in the various viands 
proudly flaunt the Stars and Stripes. 



RUMMAGE SALE. 

/|J1 IT I C AGO club- women have been di- 
\%J vided between a "rummage sale" and 
Sicnkiewicz. The outcome is that pros- 
perity has dawned on a depleted charity 
exchequer. 



This original departure from literary 
study was inspired when a wail went up 
from the Model Lodging-House because of 
lack of funds. This institution, wherein 
wandering women of the street find shelter, 
is supported by several of the largest wo- 
men's clubs in Chicago. Thereupon some- 
body suggested that club-women be in- 
vited to rummage their closets for cast-off 
clothing, to be sold in the poorer districts. 
They did, and there were cart-loads of 
everything, from petticoats to stove-pipe 
hats. Then these club-women rented two 
store-rooms, smiled on expressmen until 
they were delighted to deliver the goods for 
nothing, put on all-over aprons, and took 
a philanthropic position behind the coun- 
ters. 

For weeks the club-women in turn ex- 
changed partly worn apparel for the dimes 
of the impecunious. Even interested hus- 
bands assisted in the Saturday-night 
special sales." When these clerks finally 
shut up shop they made this most satis- 
factory entry in their books : "Sold good 
clothing to the poor for small sums, and 
netted a nice little lump for the Model 
Lodging-House." 



HOW SOME JUNIORS HAD FUN. 

©NE of the funniest things that has 
happened since last I wrote to you 
was the Sunshine dog and cat show, given 
by one of the junior branches on its "In- 
ternational Day," aided by an adult branch 
in the same city. Every Sunshine mem- 
ber was ordered to enter for the show his 
dog or cat, no matter how it looked. The 
Juniors assumed the responsibility of tak- 
ing the animals to the showroom as well 
as of returning them to their owners. 

The affair was held in a large room in 
the house of one of the members. Perhaps 
no room ever before held such an assembly 
of guests as this one. Every dog and every 
cat that could be accommodated in a cage 
was there so housed. Others were in tem- 
porary pens or tied to table or chair legs. 




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The most unruly were caged in dry-goods 
boxes With wire fronts. 

To the surprise of many present every 
member's cat or dog was on hand. A com- 
mittee of boys had seen to it that not one. 
escaped. Where the master or mistress 
had failed to send the animal to the show 
it was straightway called for by one of the 
neighbors' children, and placed on exhi- 
bition without the entrance fee of fifty 
;ents having been paid. 

SURPRISES AWAITED THE CHILDREN'S PAR- 
ENTS. 

The poor little Billy dog that had lost 
an ear in a fight was there, the happiest 
of the lot. Kover, with a great bald spot 
on his back, the result of a scald when 
stealing chickens, did not seem to mind at 
til the disgrace he threw upon his mistress. 

Black Nose, a huge cat, looked on the 
whole affair with seeming disdain, though 
he had lost his tail a month ago because 
)f bad calculation — a door closed upon him 
before he expected it. 

All kinds of surprises awaited the papas 
and mammas. The booby prize was an- 
nounced as won by Mrs. R. Z. Goodnow's 
cat. 

"Why, I have none," she exclaimed. 

"Yeth, oo have, mamma," cried her 
four-year-old pride; "I got 'im in the 
threet yethterday." 

It was a tramp cat with a broken leg, 
and so poor that every rib was counted by 
the committee. He seemed happy, for he 
had been fixed up by the cat doctor, and 
did not at all object to the yellow bow that 
was tied on his tail in honor of his beino- 
the best subject of contented wretched- 
ness. 

"I caught him 'tause he limpths," lisped 
the four-year-old. 

"Yes, I see," said mamma, amid the 
loud applause of the audience. 

A TAILLESS DOG GOT FIRST PRIZE. 

The judges were selected from members 
who possessed neither cat nor dog. This 
was done, I suppose, in order to prevent a 



showing of prejudice. Among them I no- 
ticed a lawyer, a school-teacher, a musi- 
cian and an artist. I remember this well, 
for when a tiny, tailless dog got the first 
prize — a beautiful collar — the argument 
was as follows : 

"As a musician, I vote for this dog be- 
cause his bark is the most musical one I 
hear." 

The school-teacher explained that she 
thought, judging from a school-teacher's 
point of view, that this dog was far the 
most intelligent one of the group. Every 
time she called out "Doggie ! Doggie !" he 
would try to come to her, while many of 
the others remained motionless and stupid. 
The lawyer who disliked dogs announced 
that the good nature of the little fellow 
would keep him out of squabbles, and his 
timidity from annoying his neighbors. 
And the artist voted for him because he 
was such "a dear, homely little thing, just 
what we want at the sketch class next Mon- 
day." 

Many in the audience protested, but 
the Juniors stood by the decision of their 
judges. 

— Ladies' Home Journal. 



A STARS AND STRIPES AFFAIR. 

(pK^OLT may make your Fourth-of-July 
r 1 f P art J a Stars and Stripes affair. It 
will come off with the dash and swing of 
the gay music from which it takes its name, 
and with the eclat so necessary for our 
immortal Independence Day. 

The Stars and Stripes game on which 
the entertainment is built can be played 
by young or old, erudite or ignorant, and 
by any number from fifteen to forty. 

The only things needed are several boxes 
of blank cards, carte de visite size. The 
number of these cards required will de- 
pend upon the number of players. 

Take a large number of the cards and 
paste a gilt star on each. On another 
bunch paste narrow stripes of red, one 
stripe on each. On the remaining lot; 
paste corresponding stripes in silver. This 



A CUPID BREAKFAST. 



silver represents the white stripes of our 
flag, which would not show up clearly 
upon a white card. 

The players are seated around a large 
table, and the cards are dealt like an ordi- 
nary pack, giving one each round to each 
player and one to the pool until the num- 
ber is exhausted. 

The cards are held figure side in. Each 
player, after taking the cards in hand, 
examines them to see if among what he 
holds he can make up a "flag;" that is, 
if he holds as many stripes of each kind 
and as many stars as there are stars and 
stripes in the American flag. 

If he holds the correct number he sepa- 
rates these cards from the others in his 
hand, shows them to the table, and then 
lays them aside. If the cards dealt to him 
contain two flags he shows both to the 
table and pockets both. 

When no player can form further flags 
from the cards in hand the drawing be- 
gins. Each player borrows from his left- 
hand neighbor, and endeavors, by borrow- 
ing, to make a flag. If any player gets 
out of cards he still has the privilege of 
drawing. The person on the right of a 
person out of cards draws from the pool. 
The pool is drawn upon in this predica- 
ment only. 

The ignorance which too many Ameri- 
cans are guilty of with regard to their 
country's emblem cannot fail to come to 
light in the Stars and Stripes game, and 
is provocative of much amusement, for 
no one is allowed during the progress of 
the game to answer any questions with 
regard to the formation of the flag. If 
any player is sufficiently ill-informed to 
jplay seventeen stripes and eight stars and 
call it a "flag" his cards are forfeited. 
They go back into the pool. The player 
knows that he has made a mistake, but his 
enlightenment on the formation of Old 
(J lory is prohibited. He must try again 
and endeavor to ascertain the. number of 
each of the figures. 

Play, of course, goes on rapidly — draw- 
ing, matching and laying up. There is 



plenty of time between the drawing and 
being drawn from to determine whether 
or not one has the elements of a flag in 
one's hand. 

A certain time, say one hour or one hour 
and a half, in which to make flags should 
be announced in advance. The player 
who at the end of that time has formed 
most banners carries off the prize. The 
prize should be reflective in some way of 
the nature of the evening. A little volume 
on the history of the flag and other patri- 
otic insignia would make a good choice 
for the man. The prize-winning woman 
would appreciate a pretty lamp-shade 
trimmed in red, white and blue. 



A CUPID BREAKFAST. 

'HE little god of love is early abroad 
on good St. Valentine's day, so a 
valentine breakfast will be quite the proper 
thing with which to begin this day set 
apart for lovers. 

The invitations are written on a red 
heart-shaped card pierced with a tiny gilt 
arrow ; if the arrows cannot be. bought in 
your place, make them of cardboard and 
gild them, fastening to the heart with baby 
ribbon. The invitations are delivered by 
a small boy dressed as Cupid, with his 
bow and a quiver of invitations. 

Bank the mantel with green foliage, 
and inscribe in gold or crimson letters 
some love quotation, such as, "SAveet is 
true love," "Oh, it is my love," "Call me 
but love," or some similar ones. Before 
the, mirrors suspend, with chains of smilax 
or mistletoe, heart-shaped baskets of flow- 
ers; red roses if possible, as the red rose 
is the flower of love. On the walls ar- 
range quivers of cardboard covered with 
crimson cloth and filled with gilded ar- 
rows. On the bank of green on the dining- 
room mantel lay a long gilded arrow pierc- 
ing a row of crimson hearts. For the table 
have for a centerpiece, four hearts fastened 
together with a bow of ribbon, through 
which is thrust a gilded arrow. 



AFTERNOON CARD PARTY. 



As the guests will not tarry long after 
they leave the table not much in the way 
of amusement need be prepared. A sheet 
may be stretched across one corner of the 
room and a variety of love objects fas- 
tened on it; then the guests in turn may 
shoot at it with a bow and patent-tipped 
arrow. This is to learn their fate for the 
ensuing year. If a lady and gentleman 
shoot the same object they may be regarded 
as valentines for the ensuing year ; if two 
girls should hit the same object they will 
be rivals for the year. 

Here are some love suggestions with 
their meanings: 

An arrow — A wounded heart. 

Dove — A meek spouse. 

Cupid — Too many lovers. 

Hymeneal torch — Thrice married. 

Altar — You will wed your choice. 

Pierced hearts — A broken engagement. 

A pair of robins — You will wed in the 
springtime. 

Clasped hands — You will wed within 
the year. 

A blank — ^ot this vear. 



SOCIAL LIFE. 



T a recent luncheon in honor of a 
bride-to-be, not a little amusement 
was caused through the clever selection 
of the ices. The. hostess, who had made 
mental observations of the experiences for 
some time past of her girl guests, evolved 
the brilliant idea of having the ices bring 
to each girl's mind some particularly 
eventful occasion in her life. While this 
w T as not as effective, perhaps, as serving the 
ices in dainty flowered arrangements, the 
amusement derived was certainly very 
gratifying. The bride-to-be received as 
her ice a large ring of golden-colored cream 
with a huge solitaire of lemon ice, securely 
fastened in its golden setting. One maid- 
en, who had favored a gallant defender 
of our country, had a perfect little soldier 
boy, givn and all; another — a coquette, 
who has kept a few unhappy men in sus- 



pense for several moons — received a L 
icy heart. Shrieks of laughter were heard 
as each new ice appeared, and before it 
could be deposited before the one for whom 
it was intended the meaning had been 
grasped by all. 



AFTERNOON CARD PARTIES. 

^PjHEY need to be carefully planned, 
f~fp that the game may progress smooth- 
ly without confusion. Invitations requir- 
ing a reply should be sent out some days 
before the party. An answer must be 
returned, so that the number of expected 
guests may be ascertained and the right 
number of cards, tables and chairs ar- 
ranged. It is not enough to argue to one's 
self that if no reply is sent, the guest 
will be expected. Far different, the hos- 
tess needs to know. Here again the size 
of the rooms must be kept in mind and 
only enough people invited to be seated 
comfortably at small tables. The game 
to be played must be decided on when the 
invitations are sent, so that the guests 
may know what they are to play, and if 
anyone is profoundly ignorant of the rules 
for this game, a regret is advisable, or else 
preparatory practice ; for an inexperienced 
card player is often a killjoy among good 
players. 

AS TO GAMES. 

Hearts and euchre, rank first as success- 
ful round games to be played by a number 
of people. Whist is too scientific and too 
serious to be murdered by conversation and 
constant change of partners, although it 
must be confessed that drive whist and 
progressive whist are frequently played. 
Each table should be numbered and pro- 
vided with a set of rules governing the 
game. The guests are given score cards, 
also numbered, four or six like numbers 
for each table. If the game is to be played 
w T ith partners, some pretty device of va- 
rious colored ribbons, fans, flowers or flags 
designates the partners and the tables, in- 
stead of numbers. 



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A «C" SOCIAL. 



When score cards are used, a gilt or 
colored star or heart is given to each win- 
ning player at the end of one or two rounds 
of cards. The colored celluloid counters 
on bracelets are also convenient, each play- 
er starting with twenty-five counters of 
one color on a bracelet. Additional discs 
are placed in a little basket or dish on 
each table. At the end of the game, some 
dainty prizes may be given to the two or 
three players having the. highest scores, or 
some pretty trine to everyone. 

When the playing is ended, the tables 
should be covered with cloths and a spread 
served. The simplest and easiest menu 
consists of ice cream and cake. Lemonade 
may be served in a punch bowl throughout 
the afternoon, the guests helping them- 
selves as they move from one table to an- 
other. Little dishes of salted almonds and 
bonbons stand on each table during the 
game. Another menu, answering for a 
supper, is made up of chicken salad, rolls, 
sandwiches, olives, ice cream in fancy 
molds served with spun sugar, cake, coffee 
and chocolate. 

SAINT VALENTINE AND WASHINGTON. 

For Saint Valentine's day, serve the 
cream in heart shapes and give valentines 
to each guest; of course the game played 
is hearts, the counters are heart-shaped, 
the score cards a large heart. On Wash- 
ington's Birthday the famous hatchet ap- 
pears, and ices are served in little wax or 
paper cases with a tiny cherry tree on the 
cover. At Easter time, eggs, chickens or 
rabbits in molded shapes, or ice cream 
baskets containing a few fresh strawber- 
ries, make an attractive spread. All these 
molded creams appeal more to the eye than 
to the palate. Oftentimes plain vanilla 
ice cream served with a spoonful of pre- 
served ginger, or some fruit marmalade, 
is more satisfactory, and certainly less 
costly. 

When a large number of guests are en- 
tertained at a card party, they may be 
easily served by having a table in the din- 
ing, room spread with plates of different 



kinds of sandwiches, cakes, olives, candies, 
ginger, almonds and wafers, so arranged 
that the guests may help themselves to 
whatever they like, in passing from room 
to room. Ice water and fruit punch should 
be served through the afternoon. A very 
delightful entertainment requiring much 
more table service and preparation is a 
luncheon for twenty or thirty guests, fol- 
lowed by card playing. 



AN IRISH SOCIAL. 

IHIS should be held on March 17, St. 
Patrick's Day. All decorations 
should be in green, and a bit of green worn 
by each guest. The. shamrock (clover) 
may be utilized in the following manner : 
Cut out clover-shaped leaves from green 
cardboard; on these write a short pun, 
witty saying or conundrum; place these 
in a box, or, better still, on a pretty dish, 
and pass to the guests. These should be 
read, in turn, and will provoke much mer- 
riment. If desired a program, one includ- 
ing Irish songs, recitations, jokes and pa- 
pers on Irish subjects may be introduced. 
A debate might be interesting, on the old 
subject, "Resolved, That the Irish have had 
more cause of complaint against England 
than has the negro against the United 
States." 

The refreshments should consist of a 
potato menu. 



A "C" SOCIAL. 



'HE following amusing social was 
J|> given in one of the. leading churches 
of our city not long ago. The invitations 
were based on the letter "C," and read as 
f ollows : 



C 



ome to the 

hristian Church next Friday even- 
ing and be 
heered and refreshed by the 
urious Catering Company. 



ABOUT THE TABLE. 



77 



The refreshments were served and or- 
dered from the following menu card at 
the given prices: 

Chopped commontaters (salad) 2c 

Cold carved creature (beef and pork) . 5c 

Cured cucumbers (pickles) 3c 

Cold curd (cottage cheese) 2c 

Country comforts (doughnuts) 2c 

Crammed commodities (bologna) .... 5c 

Cook's composition (cake) 3c 

Churned cream (butter) free 

Condiments (seasonings) free 

Crystal clear (water) free 

Country charm (cream) free 

Cherished cooler (ice cream) 10c 



The words in parentheses are not to be 
printed on the menu. The guests are to 
order as an experiment, only. 

The following "C" game may also be 
introduced : 

1 — A stately C ? (Aristocracy.) 
2— A royal C ? (His Excellency.) 
3— A deceptive C? (Fallacy.) 
4 — A criminal C? (Piracy.) 
5 — A much desired C? (Currency.) 
6— A clever C? (Policy.) 
7 — An exclusive C? (Privacy.) 
8 — An aromatic C? (Spicy.) 
9 — A tempting C? (Delicacy.) 
10 — A merciful C? (Clemency.) 



SOME EASILY PREPARED DAINTY DISHES. 



tEALIZING- the limited amount of 
time the busy housewife has at her 
command for research after, and to pre- 
pare, new and dainty dishes, we take pleas- 
ure in submitting the following receipts 
for her consideration. They will be found 
practical and most helpful in the prepara- 
tion of emergency dinners, luncheons and 
suppers, when unexpected company ar- 
rives. 



ABOUT THE TABLE. 



TABLE DECORATIONS. 



©NE of the most satisfactory colors 
to use for table decoration is rose 
pink, which bears the light of sun and arti- 
ficial lights without much change. Blue 
often becomes green, and vice versa, under 
the influence of gas or electricity. Violet 
changes its hue, and yellow appears faded 
and pale away from the sun. Red is a 
trifle dangerous in combination and con- 
trast, although very cheerful and effective 
if used in winter, when warm tints are 
acceptable. Foliage green is always pleas- 
ing, especially in summer, when ferns are 
obtainable everywhere outside of city lim- 
its. Large and small ferns will keep their 
fresh greenness if when gathered they are 



placed one over the other compactly on a 
thin piece of board or cardboard, and then 
sprinkled or even immersed in cold water 
and kept in a cool, dark place for several 
hours. Ferns so treated have been used 
twenty-four hours later for church decora- 
tion and were as fresh as when growing 
on their native mold. 

A pretty table decoration consists of a 
circular mirror, with silver mounting if 
possible, set in the center of a fine white 
linen cloth or pink embroidered center- 
piece. On the mirror rests a glass bowl, 
filled with pink roses, while a wreath of 
asparagus fern encircles it, and one end is 
continued to a central chandelier directly 
over the table. Candelabra of glass or 
silver, holding pink candles and pink silk 
or paper shades, throw a soft glow over 
the table. 

Menus and guest cards for flower 
luncheons, teas, etc., are made by cutting 
out of water color paper large flower 
shapes and painting in the natural colors. 
A green leaf of the same may be added, on 
which is painted the name of the guest in 
gold paint. Pansies, wild roses, irises, 
lilies, or any large-petaled flowers are the 
best to use ; one pattern can be repeated 
several times. Lay the color in broadly 
before cutting. Fruits treated in the same 



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SOME MENU TERMS. 



way make charming souvenirs if well 
done. The idea may be carried out in 
booklet form in which names, dates, quota- 
tions, etc., are inscribed. 

When preparing bouquets, a good rule is 
to cut the flowers early in the morning, in 
long sprays, with foliage ; lay flowers and 
all in a bowl of water for an hour, keeping 
in a cool place, then shake off the water, 
and they may be sent and will keep fresh. 
Roses that have wilted may be freshened 
by cutting off half an inch from the stems, 
and placing into very hot water for a few 
moments. 

FOR DECORATION. 

Get at the florist's a wide wreath-frame 
that will fit over the edge of your lemon- 
ade or punch bowl. Fill in around the 
edges with a delicate fern. When grape- 
vines are bare, cover the body of the frame 
with giossy green galax leaves, using partly 
the beautiful, rich crimson ones for va- 
riety. Upon this foundation place clusters 
of different colored grapes, letting them 
hang over the outer edge. A more appro- 
priate and lovely decoration for this use 
could scarcely be invented, and the cost is 
next to nothing. 

Nothing tempts the appetite more than 
a daintily set table, especially so on a 
warm summer's morning. 

If possible have the table on a Sunday 
morning placed out of doors ; the veranda, 
if shaded from the sun, is an ideal place 
for the breakfast. A low basket filled with 
blossoms and green foliage should be 
placed in the center. These need not be 
expensive; simple field flowers or house 
blossoms at hand can be arranged on a bed 
of moist moss, and a bow of pretty ribbon 
;h1<!s to its attractiveness. Use well-laun- 
dered linen and pretty china. Fill finger 
bowls one-half full of water, adding to each 
a slice of lemon or a rose petal. Serve the 
coffee on the table, and from an urn, if 
you possess one, otherwise use a pretty 
coffee pot. When the table cannot be 
placed out of doors the temperature of the 
room should be cool and refreshing. 



SOME MENU TERMS. 

SO many foreign words are now used to 
convey the meaning of many articles 
of menus, etc., that an explanation of 
same will save the time and patience of 
many a housewife. The following are 
everyday explanations of a number of said 
terms: 

Aspic — A jelly made from meat stock 
and used as a garnish. 

Bechamel — A white sauce made of stock 
and cream. 

Bisque — A shellfish soup. 

Blanch — To parboil or scald vegetables 
or nuts to remove skins or shells. 

Blanquette — A white meat warmed in 
white sauce and thickened with eggs. 

Bouchees — Patties. 

To Braise — To cook meat in covered 
pan, with heat applied both above and be- 
low. 

Cannelon — A meat, chopped and highly 
seasoned, and baked in the form of a roll. 

Charlotte — A mold of sponge cake or 
lady fingers filled with whipped cream or 
fruit. 

Chartreuse — A preparation of meat, 
game or poultry molded in jelly and sur- 
rounded by vegetables. 

Compote — Fruit stewed in syrup. 

Consomme — A rich, jellied soup. 

A La Creole — With flavoring of tom- 
ato, green pepper and various hot condi- 
ments. 

Croquette — A mixture of meat, fish or 
vegetables, warmed in cream, rolled, 
egged, breaded and fried in hot fat. 

Crouton — A cube of fried or toasted 
bread to serve with soup. 

Entrees — Small made dishes served 
with the first course at dinner. 

Fillet — A piece of solid meat or fish. 
sometimes skewered or rolled. 

Fricassee — A stew with the meat 
previously slightly browned by frying. 

Glace — Covered with icing. 

Glaze — Sonp boiled down to a paste. 

Grill— To broil. 

Lardoon — A strip of salt pork used to 



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produce flavor and fat for a lean piece of 
meat. 

Mayonnaise — A salad dressing. 

Meringue — A light puff of beaten white 
of egg and powdered sugar, delicately 
browned. 

Potage — A soup. 

Puree — A thick soup pressed through a 
sieve. 

Roux — Thickening of flour and butter. 

Salmi — Stew or hash. 

Saute — To fry brown in a small amount 
of fat. 

Souffle — A very light puffed up pud- 
ding or omelet. 



THE PICNIC LUNCH BASKET. 

fHERE is hardly anything in flesh, 
fish, fowl, fruit or vegetables which 
cannot be converted into an excellent sand- 
wich. Besides sandwiches there are a score 
of other dishes which can be utilized for 
the first course of a picnic. There are veal 
and chicken loaves, salads of a wide varie- 
ty, meats in aspic, chicken gelatine, ham 
farci, veal and ham pie, and eggs in all 
sorts of styles. There are a number of 
puddings which carry well to a picnic and 
help fill out an appetizing menu. Among 
them one can number poor man's pudding 
or any cold pudding of rice or tapioca, 
cabinet pudding, date souffle, tapioca and 
apples, or a good bread pudding. Eaten 
with thick cream they top off a woodland 
luncheon very desirably. Pie is not a good 
picnic dessert ; transportation does not im- 
prove its looks, and besides there are other 
desserts better. If one plans to carry a 
dessert into which gelatine enters, pack it 
in ice; if this is not done, the result will 
be a thin, uneatable mess. Ices and sher- 
bets or frozen fruits, if frozen hard and 
well packed in salt and ice, can be easily 
transported and are always the most 
eagerly anticipated dish on a bill of fare. 
Let the cake that accompanies them be a 
plain sponge or loaf cake. An elaborately 
iced layer cake which has traveled for 



miles in a tally-ho or even a trolley car docs 
not always look well at a journey's cud. 
Take appetizers along — olives, pickles, 
chow-chow or a bottle of chili or oscar 
sauce. In carrying salad put the meat or 
vegetables with a little French dressing to 
marinate in a glass can, and if ice is car- 
ried it should be set where it will keep as 
chilly as possible. Put the mayonnaise 
and any garnish, such as cut olives, capers 
or hard boiled eggs, into separate jelly 
glasses and prepare the dish just before, 
serving. Fruit can always be added to 
the menu — strawberries, raspberries or 
blackberries to accompany sugar and 
cream, or watermelon and muskmelon. No 
better way of chilling the latter can be 
found than the old-fashioned country plan 
of setting them in a brook surrounded by 
stones and allowing the water to flow about 
them for an hour or so before cutting. 
Coming to picnic beverages, there is a wide 
choice : Hot or cold tea and coffee, lemon- 
ade, raspberry vinegar or milk. 

For sandwiches, all sorts of bread may 
be used — fine white bread, graham, Bos- 
ton brown, entire wheat or old-fashioned 
rye bread. If one is making bread 
especially for a picnic it is an excellent 
plan to bake it in half-pound baking- 
powder boxes, which turn out the neatest 
slices imaginable. Butter each can very 
carefully and fill half full of dough. Allow 
it to rise to within two inches of the top, 
butter the inside of the lid, and put it on. 
Do not allow them to bake more than half 
an hour, or the outside will be too crusty. 
When buttering sandwiches, first cream 
the butter as for cake, and spread each slice 
before cutting it from the loaf. Xever use 
bread for sandwiches until it is twenty- 
four hours old or it will not cut well. 
When the sandwiches are made, put them 
in a pail or jar, spread over a napkin 
wrung from hot water and fit on a close 
lid. They will keep deliciously moist for 
four hours if carried in this style. Sample 
some of these sandwiches : 

Cheese Sandwiches — To half a cup of 
mild grated cheese and half a cup of 



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Roquefort cheese rubbed to a paste, add 
one teaspoon of paprika and half a cup 01 
cream. Beat till smooth and spread be- 
tween graham bread. 

Walnut and Cheese Sandwiches — Chop 
half a cup of walnut meats fine and mix 
with half a cup of Neufchatel cheese. Add 
a dash of pepper and salt if they seem to 
require seasoning. Spread between slices 
of white bread. If desired this sandwich 
may be further improved by putting be- 
tween the folds a crisp lettuce leaf. 

Anchovy Cheese Sandwiches — To one 
cottage cheese add two teaspoons of 
anchovy essence, one teaspoon of paprika 
and two tablespoons of chopped parsley. 
Spread between slices of entire wheat 
bread. 

Celery Sandwiches — Chop fine two 
cups of celery, add two tablespoons of 
chopped walnuts, two tablespoons of 
chopped olives and a quarter of a cup of 
mayonnaise dressing. Spread between 
folds of buttered white bread. 

Chicken and Celery Sandwiches — Put 
through the finest knife of the meat 
chopper one cup of cold chicken. Add to 
it one cup of celery cut very fine and four 
tablespoons of mayonnaise. Butter rounds 
of white bread, spread. 

Salmon Sandwiches — Drain the oil 
from a can of salmon, remove the skin and 
bones and mash the fish very fine. Add to 
it the yolks of six hard-boiled eggs pressed 
through the potato ricer, half a teaspoon 
of salt, one-fourth teaspoon paprika, two 
tablespoons lemon juice, two tablespoons 
chopped parsley and half a cup of boiled 
salad dressing. Spread between folds of 
white or entire wheat bread. 

Mock Crab Sandwiches — To half a cup 
of grated cheese add four tablespoons of 
creamed butter, half a teaspoon each of 
salt, paprika and mustard, one teaspoon 
of anchovy paste and vinegar and two 
tablespoons of chopped olives. Spread be- 
tween rounds of white bread. 

Shrimp Sandwiches — : Slicll clean a pint 
of shrimps, chop very fine, add one, and 
a half tablespoons of lemon juice and three 



tablespoons of oil mayonnaise. Spread be- 
tween buttered folds of white bread. 

Ham and Veal Sandwiches — Chop fine 
one cup each of cold ham and cold veal. 
Add four drops of tabasco sauce, one tea- 
spoon of mustard, two teaspoons of vine- 
gar, two teaspoons of grated horse-radish 
and two tablespoons of mayonnaise. 
Spread between buttered folds of white 
bread. 

Cocoanut Sandwiches — Grate one co- 
coanut, which ought to yield about two 
cups of fine white shreds. Add half a cup 
of chopped walnut meats, two teaspoons 
of lemon juice, a quarter of a cup of sugar 
and one-third cup of cream. Mix well and 
spread between folds of buttered white 
bread. 

Beef Loaf — Put three pounds of round 
steak with a few bones into two quarts of 
cold water, season with one teaspoon of 
salt and cook till tender. Allow the meat 
to cool in the liquor. Remove, the meat, 
rejecting the bones and skin, and put 
through a meat chopper, using the medium 
knife. Boil the liquor till it is reduced to 
two cups, then put in the meat, one-fourth 
teaspoon of paprika, juice and grated rind 
of one lemon, two tablespoons of vinegar, 
quarter of a teaspoon each of ground 
cloves, allspice, and nutmeg. Pour the 
mixture into a buttered mold and set in 
the refrigerator to cool. Carry to the pic- 
nic in covered mold and turn out on a 
platter, cutting in neat slices. Serve with 
it beet salad. 

Beet Salad — Cook a quart- of small 
young beets till tender. Skin and cut into 
small dice. Pour vinegar over them and 
dust lightly with salt and pepper. Can 
and carry covered with the vinegar. When 
ready to serve drain the liquid off and 
shake as dry as possible. Pour over them 
a tumbler of mayonnaise, toss lightly with 
a fork and set for fifteen minutes on ice. 

Veal Loaf — Chop very fine four pounds 
of raw lean veal, a quarter of a pound each 
of ham and salt pork. Mix with the meat 
one cup of stale bread crumbs soaked in 
milk, a quarter of a cup of melted butter, 




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This is the time when the old games "Needle's Eye," "Button, Button, " 
"Reuben and Rachel," etc., are in order. 

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one teaspoon each of salt, paprika and 
onion juice, one-quarter teaspoon each of 
allspice, cloves and nutmeg, the grated 
rind and juice of one lemon and two well- 
beaten eggs. Press into a buttered bread 
pan and cover the top with lardoons of 
salt pork ; bake one hour. Cut when cold 
into thin slices. 

Savory Stuffed Eggs in Mayonnaise — 
Cut twelve hard-boiled eggs into halves 
lengthwise. Take out the yolks, put them 
through a potato ricer and mix them with 
two tablespoons each of melted butter, 
anchovy paste and chopped ham. Add 
half a teaspoon of paprika. Press this 
egg paste into each white and lay them to- 
gether. When ready to serve pour over 
the dish a tumbler of mayonnaise. 

Dutch Cheese — Two quarts sour milk, 
heat slowly over moderate fire till it wheys 
off a little, set from the fire and let stand 
a few minutes, then pour into a bag or 
strainer — -I use a table salt bag — and let 
drain thoroughly; do not squeeze. When 
well drained turn into a dish and add one- 
half cup of cream, a pinch of soda and salt 
to the taste. Mix thoroughly and mold 
into small balls. 

Entire Wheat Bread — Two cups scalded 
milk, one-fourth cup sugar, one teaspoon- 
ful salt, one yeast cake dissolved in one- 
fourth cup lukewarm w T ater, four and one- 
third cups entire wheat flour. Combine 
the first three ingredients and- when cool 
add dissolved yeast cake and three cups of 
flour; beat until light, add remaining 
flour, beat, cover, let rise to double its 
bulk ; again beat, turn into greased bread- 
pans one-half full, let rise not quite 
double, bake ; making and baking to occupy 
about five and one-half hours. 

PICNIC BEVERAGES. 

Here are a few picnic beverages which 
may be made at home, carried in bottles or 
glass cans, and at the end of the journey 
diluted with ice water to suit the taste : 

Currant Punch — To one quart of water 
add one cup of sugar and two cups of tart 
currant jelly. Boil till dissolved, then 



add the juice of three lemons and three 
oranges. This can be diluted with water 
to serve twenty-five people. 

Grape Shrub — Crush the grapes, put 
them in a stone jar and cover with good 
cider vinegar, and then cover the jar 
tightly. Press and stir the grapes fre- 
quently and let them stand three, days. 
Then strain through folded cheesecloth 
two or three times, and to every three 
quarts of juice add five pounds of sugar. 
Stir until the sugar is dissolved; let come 
to a boil, skim carefully and bottle while 
hot. In serving allow two-thirds of water 
to one-third of juice. 

Fruit Beverage — Peel twelve lemons 
very thin, squeeze the juice over the peel 
and let stand two hours, then add one 
pound of sugar. Mash one quart of ripe 
raspberries with half a pound of sugar; 
pare a ripe pineapple, shred the fruit fine 
and mix with another half pound of sugar, 
then strain the lemon juice and mash the 
raspberries through a coarse sieve, then 
the pineapple, and mix all together, adding 
three quarts of cold water. Stir until the 
sugar is entirely dissolved, then strain, 
and serve with a little of the fruit in each 
glass. 

Red Currant Sirup — Mash three quarts 
of red currants and add three pints of 
water. Let it stand twenty-four hours, 
drain through a jelly bag, and to each pint 
of the juice, add one pound of sugar. Pour 
in a preserving kettle, set on the fire, let 
it boil twenty minutes. Remove the scum, 
allow it to cool, then bottle and cork 
tightly. A quarter of a cup of sirup added 
to a tumbler of iced water makes a deli- 
cious cooling drink. Raspberry sirup is 
made according to the same recipe, using 
one and three-quarters pounds of sugar to 
one pint of juice. 



A PRETTY LOT OF SALADS. 

SSfiT a recent afternoon tea some novel 
jf\ salad sandwiches were served. They 
were from tall, narrow biscuit, a day old, 
from which the centers were removed 






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nearly to the bottom, with a sharp, round 
apple corer, leaving a little, well. This well 
was filled with, chicken salad cut fine and 
the little round crust top was fitted into 
the biscuit like the top of a pate case, 
making the biscuit appear whole, while a 
delicious surprise was hidden within. 

Potato Salad — Four ordinary potatoes, 
boiled and then chopped, and one and a 
half cupfuls of chopped cabbage. 

Dressing — One teaspoonful ground 
mustard, one teaspoonful salt, one tea- 
spoonful black pepper, one teaspoonful 
sugar and seven tablespoonfuls of vinegar. 
Stir the dressing up well, then add one- 
quarter of a cupful melted butter. Stir 
potatoes, cabbage and dressing together. 
Boil six eggs hard. When cold cut up in 
slices. Stir the small pieces in the salad, 
leaving enough large slices for a top 
decoration. 

Potato Salad for a Church Supper is 
better and less expensive when made with 
a cooked dressing. To make potato salad 
for fifty persons, boil half a bushel of 
potatoes. When just soft drain and slice. 
Sprinkle while hot with celery seed and 
vinegar. Stand aside over night or until 
cool. At serving time cover with a dress- 
ing made as follows : For half a bushel of 
potatoes allow two quarts of milk, eight 
tablespoonfuls of cornstarch and a dozen 
eggs. Put the milk in a double boiler, 
add cornstarch moistened in a little cold 
milk ; cook until thick ; take from the fire ; 
add the yolks of the. eggs. Cook another 
moment; take from the fire and add a 
quarter of a pound of butter, two teaspoon- 
fuls of salt, two tablespoonfuls of onion 
juice, a saltspoonful of pepper. When 
cold it will be ready for use. 

Celery Salad — Cut the tender stalks of 
celery into inch pieces to make three cups, 
marinade with a French dressing. Serve 
in a ring of tomato jelly, and garnish with 
curled celery, shredded lettuce and may- 
onnaise dressing. 

Salad Dressing — One egg, one teaspoon- 
ful of flour, one teaspoonful mustard and 
salt, half cupful vinegar ; mix and put over 



hot water to thicken. Add a small piece 
of butter for potato salad. For cabbage 
salad add a little sugar. 

Bavarian Salad — Shred very fine two 
heads of lettuce, chop two onions fine and 
cut one cold beet into cubes. Make a layer 
of the lettuce, toss together the beets and 
onion and pile on the lettuce. Marinate 
with a French dressing, pour over the top 
an oil mayonnaise and garnish with sliced 
olives. 

Potato Pepper Salad — Cut three large 
cold potatoes into half -inch dice. Bemove 
the seeds from a green pepper and chop it 
fine. Mix four tablespoons of vinegar 
with two tablespoons of ice water, one- 
fourth teaspoon of powdered sugar, a dash 
of pepper and half a teaspoon of salt. Put 
a layer of potatoes in the salad dish, then 
a layer of the chopped pepper and sprinkle 
over it a tablespoon of oil. Put in another 
layer of potatoes and peppers, add another 
tablespoon of oil, then pour over all the 
vinegar. Set in the refrigerator for 
fifteen minutes to marinate. 

Kadish and Celery Salad — Cut long 
radishes in slices lengthwise and the slices 
into strips one-sixteenth of an inch wide. 
Cut celery into straws. Use equal parts 
of each, mix with a French dressing and 
garnish with boiled or mayonnaise dress- 
ing and radish roses. 

Boiled Salad Dressing — One and one- 
half teaspoons mustard, one and one-half 
teaspoons salt, two teaspoons flour, one- 
half teaspoon paprika, one-eighth teaspoon 
cayenne, one and one-half teaspoons 
melted butter, two egg yolks, one-quarter 
cup vinegar. Mix ingredients in order 
given in the top of a double boiler, cook 
over hot water until thick like soft custard, 
pour immediately into cold bowl and add 
one-half cup cream which has been beaten 
until stiff. 

Simple Salad Dressing — Two teaspoons 
mustard, one and one-half teaspoons salt, 
one-eighth teaspoon cayenne, four eggs, 
one-half cup vinegar, one-quarter cup olive 
oil. Mix mustard, salt and cayenne, add 
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the top of the double boiler, when hot pour 
on to egg mixture, return to double boiler 
and cook until mixture thickens. Cool and 
keep in covered jar; this dressing will 
keep for weeks. 

Spanish Salad — Use a flat round dish 
for this new and effective salad. Rub with 
a cut onion and place in the center a 
cluster of three crisp lettuce hearts. 
Sprinkle with a few canned Spanish 
pimentoes cut in bits. Get from a hot- 
house four fresh tomatoes, scald and peel. 
Divide these in halves crosswise, and al- 
ternate round the green center with eggs 
prepared as follows : Cook four eggs hard 
and allow to get cold. Make into cups by 
cutting the white all round the circle of 
the yolk, picket fashion. Pound yolks to 
a paste with half the amount of shrimps, 
moisten with a little mayonnaise, season 
highly and fill the egg cups. Cover the 
whole with a French dressing and garnish 
further round the edge with shrimps. A 
pretty addition to this course was a mayon- 
naise served in a little dish the shape and 
color of a tomato. 

Macedoine Salad — Cut into neat cubes 
one cold beet, one cold carrot, two cold 
potatoes and one cup of cold string beans. 
Put each vegetable separately into a sauce, 
dish and marinate with a French dressing 
for a half hour, setting it in the refrig- 
erator. Serve arranged in small spoonfuls 
on individual lettuce leaves with a light 
mask of mayonnaise on each, one and whole 
string beans as a garnish. 

Cauliflower Salad — Take a cold boiled 
cauliflower and break it into small pieces ; 
individual flowers, as it were. If it had 
been served with a cream sauce, put the 
vegetable in a strainer and allow cold 
water to wash it away. Arrange the out- 
side leaves of a head of lettuce in a salad 
bowl, take the fine tender leaves, shred 
coarsely and mix with the cauliflower. 
Arrange this in the nest of lettuce leaves 
and pour over it a French dressing. 
Asparagus salad may be made in exactly 
the same method. 

A String Bean Salad made by cutting 



green beans in fine strips lengthwise, boil- 
ing, draining and adding a French dress- 
ing and a little onion juice, is just the 
thing to eat with venison, as orange salad 
is to eat with roast duck. 

Fish and Potato Salad — This dish may 
take the place of both meat and a veg- 
etable, and, with crisp toast, may form the 
entire bulk of the supper. When you are 
boiling the potatoes for dinner boil an 
extra quantity for your supper salad. 
While they are boiling put into a bowl half 
a teaspoonful of salt and a saltspoonful of 
pepper; add a tablespoonful of vinegar, 
stir until the salt is dissolved ; then add 
four or five tablespoonfuls of olive oil ; 
stir, beat until smooth ; add a grated onion, 
and slice into this, while hot, four good- 
sized potatoes; toss them until they have 
absorbed every particle of the dressing. 
Put them on a cold dish and stand aside. 
At serving time dust the salad with finely 
chopped parsley or celery; cover the top 
with sardines, and sprinkle over it two 
tablespoonfuls of vinegar or the same of 
lemon juice, and serve. 



DAINTY RELISHES. 

WHICH MAY BE PREPARED AT HOME. 

SEKVmG of Salted Almonds— Salted 
almonds may be passed between 
courses, and need not necessarily be passed 
by a waiter, but may be passed during the 
time that the plates are being changed. 
They may be served with a bonbon-spoon 
and put on the tablecloth. It is not neces- 
sary to have individual dishes for them. 

Lemon Kelishes — Cut four or five fine 
lemons in halves crosswise and remove all 
the pulp. Leave three sections of fiber, 
which w T ill separate the space into three 
equal parts. Cut a thin slice from the bot- 
tom of each cup to make it stand upright. 
Fill one space with chopped chow-chow, 
one with piccalilli, or white pickle, and 
the other with chopped olives. The lemons 
are served on the butter plates and one ca u 



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whet the appetite with the contents at any 
time during the luncheon. 

Blanched Almonds — Shell and blanch 
the almonds, boil in strong salt water for 
ten minutes, allowing one teaspoonful of 
salt to each cupful of nuts. Dry thor- 
oughly on a cloth, add one, teaspoonful of 
melted butter or salad oil to each cupful. 
Bake in a hot oven till a light brown, shak- 
ing often. Watch lest they burn. Drain 
on blotting paper. Have a quantity on the 
sideboard or table to replenish the in- 
dividual dishes. 

Walnuts a la Creme — Blanch one pound 
of shelled English walnuts, keeping them 
in as perfect halves as possible. Cook 
slowly twenty minutes in well seasoned 
white stock, or in water containing a small 
slice of onion, a clove, a bit of bay leaf and 
a stalk of celery. Drain and cover with a 
rich cream sauce. Serve in a deep veg- 
etable dish, and garnish with red begonia 
blossoms, in a bunch. 

Peanut Brittle — Shell and remove the 
brown skins from one quart of roasted pea- 
nuts. Roll them until they are well 
broken. Put a pound of granulated sugar 
into a saucepan ; stir it until it melts and 
turns just a little brown. Add hastily the 
peanuts, mix and turn on to a greased 
marble, slab. Roll with an ordinary roll- 
ing-pin that has been dusted with a little 
of the peanut flour. The rolling must be 
done instantly and quickly. Cut into 
squares and break apart. After adding 
the peanuts you must work rapidly, every- 
thing being in readiness before you begin 
to melt the suc;ar. 



NEW WAYS OF USING COMMON FRTJITS. 

RANGE Omelet, with Whipped 
Cream — Three eggs, two tablespoon- 
fnls powdered sugar, a few grains of salt, 
one teaspoonful of lemon juice, two 
oranges, one-half tnbl/cspoonful of butter, 
two and one half Inblcspoonfuls of orange 
juice, Beparate yolks from whites, beat 
yolks until thick and lemon colored, add 



seasonings, fold in whites beaten to a 
foam, cook in smooth frying-pan or omelet 
pan in the hot butter, cook slowly, turning 
the pan that the omelet may brown evenly ; 
when delicately browned underneath, 
place on the center or upper grate of the 
oven to cook or dry the top, fold, turn on 
hot platter, sprinkle with powdered sugar, 
garnish with slices of orange, serve with 
stiffly beaten whipped cream. 

Orange Sherbet — Boil together for five 
minutes a quart of water and a pound of 
sugar with the. grated yellow rind of tAvo 
oranges. Strain ; when cool add a pint of 
orange juice and the juice of two lemons. 
Turn into the freezer ; stir slowly at first, 
and then more rapidly after the mixture 
begins to freeze. When frozen beat the 
white of one egg until light; add a table- 
spoonful of powdered sugar and beat 
again. Remove the dasher of the freezer ; 
stir in the meringue; repack, and stand 
aside for one or two hours to ripen. 

Peach Bomb — At your convenience 
early in the morning make the following 
peach ice cream : Scald one pint of cream 
and one and one-half cups granulated 
sugar till the mixture looks blue and thin. 
Take from the fire and add one pint of un- 
cooked cream. When cool add the juice 
from a pint can of white or pink peaches, 
one teaspoonful of vanilla and one-half 
teaspoonful of peach extract; freeze. 
When nearly frozen add the peach pulp, 
mix in thoroughly and pack till you are 
ready to mold it. Any simple form will 
do for this, a melon mold is very good. I 
used a common tin pail ; have it as cold as 
possible and line it with the ice cream, 
leaving a cavity in the middle. Fill this 
with a vanilla mousse, made of one pint 
of cream, whipped very stiff, four table- 
spoonfuls of powdered sugar, a few drops 
of vanilla and the same of orange extract. 
Put on the cover, bury in ice and salt and 
leave to ripen for three hours. If you find 
the outside is not dee]) enough in color, a 
suspicion of the damask-rose color paste 
will improve it. 

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bunches and dip them, one at a time, into 
a mixture of frothed white, of egg and a 
very little cold water. Drain them until 
nearly dry, and roll in pulverized sugar. 
Repeat the dip in the sugar once or twice, 
and lay them upon white paper to dry. 
These, make a tine garnish for jellies or 
charlottes, or heaped on a dish with other 
fruits. 

Strawberry Sherbet — One and a half 
pints of crushed strawberries, one pint of 
sugar, one and a half pints of water, the 
juice of two lemons. Boil the water and 
sugar together for twenty minutes; add 
lemon and strawberries, strain and freeze. 

Pineapple Cream — Peel and chop fine 
one. small sweet pineapple, and let it cook 
with one pound of sugar until it is soft and 
clear. Rub it through a sieve. It should 
all pass through. Add two tablespoonfuls 
of gelatine which has soaked for two hours 
in one-half cupful of cold water. Let the 
mixture cool by setting it in a pan of ice- 
water. When cold put it in an ice-cream 
freezer, and when nearly firm add a pint 
of whipped cream. 

Raisin Puff — Mix thoroughly (by sev- 
eral sif tings) one pint of flour, one-half 
level teaspoonful of salt and two teaspoon- 
fuls of baking-powder; stir in one scant 
half pint of milk and one cupful of seeded 
raisins. (It is easier to put the raisins in 
the flour before adding milk.) Steam for 
fifty minutes in cups. Serve with foamy 
sauce. Fresh berries or any fruit, dried 
or fresh, may be used for this pudding. 
If preferred, the fruit and dough may be 
used separately — that is, one teaspoonful 
of dough, then some fruit, another spoon- 
ful of dough, and so on until the cup is 
two-thirds full. 

Baked Bananas — To bake bananas, peel 
six of them, cut in halves lengthwise and 
arrange in a granite baking pan. Mix 
one-third cup of sugar, two tablespoonfuls 
of lemon juice and two tablespoonfuls of 
melted butter. Pour over the bananas 
half of this mixture and bake twenty 
minutes in a slow oven. During the bak- 



with the remainder of the mix- 
lure. 

Spiced Currants — Press juice enough 
from red currants to make one cup, add to 
it one cup of vinegar and bring it to the 
boiling point. Into it put seven pounds 
of currants, four pounds of granulated 
sugar, two ounces of stick cinnamon and 
one ounce of cloves tied in a tiny muslin 
bag. Let it boil till it jellies. It will 
probably take an hour to cook, perhaps 
longer ; this depends much on the ripeness 
of the currants. Pour into glasses. This 
makes an excellent accompaniment to 
lamb, either hot or cold. 

Fig Pudding — Wash half a pound of 
pulled figs and cut them into very small 
pieces. Separate two eggs ; to the yolks 
add one cup of milk, a tablespoonful of 
melted butter, a cupful and a half of flour 
that has been sifted with a teaspoonful of 
baking powder. Beat thoroughly; stir in 
the well-beaten whites of the eggs, and 
then the figs, well floured. Turn into a 
greased mould, cover, and steam or boil 
continuously for two hours. 

Apple Float — Beat the whites of four 
eggs until light; add four tablespoonfuls 
of powdered sugar and beat until fine and 
dry. Have ready two good-sized apples; 
pare and grate them in a little at a time, 
beating carefully until you have just as 
much apple as the meringue will hold. 
Have the bottom of a glass dish covered 
with either soft custard or cream, float the 
apple mixture on top, and send to the 
table. 



SIMPLE DAINTY DESSERTS. 

§HOCOLATE Pudding with Bread- 
crumbs — Rub sufficient stale bread 
to fill a dozen timbale cups. These may 
be previously brushed with butter. Put 
a pint and a half of milk in a 
double boiler; add half a cupful of 
sugar and three ounces of grated choco- 
late; stir until the. chocolate is dis- 
solved and thoroughly cooked. Take from 
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that have been well beaten. Baste this 
carefully over the crumbs in the cups. 
When well soaked up stand in a pan of hot 
water. Cover with greased paper, and 
bake in the oven for fifteen or twenty 
minutes. These may be served with 
vanilla or chocolate sauce. 

Rice Fruit Pudding — Steam a scant 
cupful of rice in two teacupfuls of boiling 
water in the double boiler thirty minutes ; 
add while hot one tablespoonful of butter, 
scant teaspoonful salt, one beaten egg y half 
a cupful of sugar ; cook five minutes ; but- 
ter a plain pudding mold ; sprinkle it with 
bread-crumbs, or line with macaroons; 
put in a layer of rice half an inch thick, 
then a layer of apricots, peaches, or any 
fruit you prefer ; then rice, fruit, etc., un- 
til the mold is full, having crumbs on top. 
Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven ; 
turn out on a platter, and serve with boiled 
custard flavored with vanilla or lemon. 

Frozen Pudding — Beat the yolks of six 
eggs until very light. Boil together a pint 
of water and a pound of sugar for five 
minutes; add the yolks of the eggs; beat 
over the fire for just a moment. Take 
from the fire, and beat continuously until 
the mixture is cold. It should be thick 
like sponge cake batter. Add a quart of 
cream and a teaspoonful of vanilla. Turn 
into a freezer, and freeze until it is the 
consistency of soft snow. Have ready half 
a pint of chopped fruit which has been 
soaking for one or two hours in orange 
juice; add this fruit, and turn until the 
mixture is well frozen. This pudding may 
be served with or without sauce. 

Maple Ice Cream — This is simply ice 
cream sweetened with maple sugar. Scald 
a pint of cream ; add to it eight ounces of 
scraped maple sugar; stir until the sugar 
is dissolved. Take from the fire ; add a 
tablespoonful of caramel, a teaspoonful of 
vanilla, and when very cold add another 
pint of uncooked cream. Turn into the 
freezer, and when thoroughly cold freeze 
as ordinary ice cream. 

Devonshire Cream — Fill a milkcrock 
with rich new milk and put it on the back 



part of the stove where it will heat through 
without boiling or even simmering. The 
whey will separate and a solid mass form 
on top. Stand it where it will become per- 
fectly cold, lift the solid part carefully 
into a glass dish, and serve. This is most 
wholesome, and is very refreshing in sum- 
mer. Plain sweet cream is sometimes 
served with it. 

Orange Dessert — Cut six oranges cross- 
wise in half, and with a sharp and pointed 
knife cut out all the pulp from the section- 
dividing skins ; save all the juice and add 
to it one cupful of water, one cupful of 
wine, one cupful of granulated sugar, the 
juice of two lemons and the. grated peel 
of two of the oranges; boil together five 
minutes, and strain when cold over the 
orange-pulp. Whipped cream ' slightly 
sweetened may be added if fancied. 

Caramel Ice Cream — Soak one table- 
spoonful of gelatine in one-half cupful of 
milk until dissolved. Stir one cupful of 
granulated sugar in a spider until it be- 
comes liquid and turns a rich brown, then 
add one-half cupful of water and stir till 
it dissolves, or about fifteen minutes. 
Turn this caramel into one and one-third 
pints of cream, strain in the gelatine, add 
one pint of whipped cream, and freeze. 
After freezing remove the paddles and re- 
pack, allowing three hours to ripen the 
cream. This recipe gives the richest, 
finest cream that can be made. Though 
rich, unskimmed milk is used instead of 
the plain cream the result is still excellent. 

Coffee Ice Cream — Add one tablespoon- 
ful of gelatine to one-half cupful of milk, 
and soak until dissolved ; strain into one 
pint of cream or rich milk ; add one scant 
cupful of sugar dissolved in one table- 
spoonful of water by heating long enough 
to obtain a syrup ; add one pint of whipped 
cream and one-half cupful of coffee of the 
quadruple strength of "after-dinner cof- 
fee;" freeze, repack, and let ripen three 
hours. 

Fruit Ice Cream — Make as above, leav- 
ing out the coffee and adding the fruit 
when repacking, 



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Rolled Tapioca Pudding — Soak one 
cupful of tapioca in about three cupfuls of 
water for two hours; cook in a double 
boiler, adding one cupful of chopped 
seeded raisins, one and one-half cupfuls of 
sugar and one teaspoonful of vanilla until 
clear. When cold spread on a sheet of 
spongecake while it is hot, roll quickly, 
sprinkle with powdered sugar, and serve 
with whipped cream. A simple sponge- 
cake may be made of one cupful of sugar, 
one cupful of flour, four eggs and one 
teaspoonful of baking-powder. 

Caramel Custards — Melt in an iron pan 
half a cupful of sugar. When this is liquid 
pour it into the bottom of six custard-cups 
and sort of twirl them "ftntil you line the 
sides. Beat three eggs without separating 
with three tablespoonfuls of granulated 
sugar. Add three-quarters of a pint of 
milk; mix thoroughly. Add a grating of 
nutmeg and pour into the cups. Stand 
them in a pan of boiling water and bake 
in the oven until set. Turn them from the 
cups while, hot, but serve cold. 

Cherry Ice Cream — Put one pound of 
granulated sugar and one-half pint of 
water in a saucepan over the fire. Stir 
until the sugar is all dissolved, then let 
the syrup come to a boil. Drop in gently 
one quart of white, cherries, pitted, and let- 
simmer fifteen minutes. Strain carefully, 
and when the syrup is cold add one quart 
of sweet cream and freeze. When it gets 
rather thick remove the dasher, beat well 
with a wooden paddle and stir in the fruit. 
Pack and let stand three or four hours to 
ripen. Another very nice way to serve 
cherry ice cream is to stone and crush the 
cherries and add sugar to make very sweet. 
Chill on ice. Put a spoonful of the 
crushed fruit in small glasses and heap 
over vanilla ice cream. 



HOT WEATHER DAINTIES. 

ICES AND SHERBETS. 

!N" ice is made of water, fruit juice 
\s\ and sugar, but as many object to the 
rasping, hard, thin composition whites of 



eggs are quite generally used to modify the 
character of the. ice. Such preparations are 
usually called sherbets. The true sherbet 
is made of a syrup, instead of simple 
water and fruit juice, and this gives the 
substance body and richness. Sherbets, 
like ices, may be frozen in bulk, in forms, 
or partially frozen and served in glasses 
or cups, sold under the name of sherbet 
cups. A white ice or sherbet is simply 
white because of the lack of color in the 
fruit juice, and the free Use of the beaten 
whites of eggs. The following is a good 
general rule for an ice, though the amount 
of sugar may be increased or diminished 
according to the acidity of the. fruit juice. 
As freezing always abstracts from the 
sweet taste, the unfrozen mixture should 
be a little sweeter than desired when 
frozen. 

Plain Ice — One quart of fruit juice, 
two quarts of water, three pounds of su- 



£ar. 



Dissolve the sugar in the boiling 



water, cool, add the fruit juice and freeze 
as for ice cream. Ice takes longer to 
freeze, smoothly than cream and must be 
packed afterwards with care as it softens 
more rapidly. Freeze ice at least two 
hours before serving. 

Lemon Ice — Make a syrup of one and 
one-half quarts of water and one and one- 
half pounds of sugar, and add the grated 
rind of three lemons, boiling five minutes. 
Let cool and add the juice of six lemons. 
Strain, and freeze, beating thoroughly. 
The well-beaten w r hites of three eggs may 
be added when the ice is half frozen, and 
the freezing continued. Should the syrup 
not taste sweet enough, dissolve, sugar in 
a little water and add before turning into 
the freezer. 

Orange Ice — Orange ice may be made 
by using the same, proportions of water 
and sugar as for lemon ice, the grated rind 
of three oranges, and the juice of six, with 
that of two lemons. Proceed as for lemon 
ice, and the whites of eggs may be omitted, 
though they add softness to the ice. 

Sherbet — Allow a quart each of any 
kind of fruit juice and water and two 



A DAINTY BRIDESMAID LUNCHEON. 



pounds of sugar. Cook to form a syrup. 
Freeze, beating well. 

Pineapple Sherbet — Allow the juice of 
two lemons to a quart of grated pineapple 
pulp and juice, a pint of water, one and 
one-half pounds of sugar, and the whites 
of three eggs. Dissolve the sugar in the 
boiling water, add the lemon juice; boil 
up and strain clear. When cold, stir in 
the pineapple, and after it is partly frozen 
add the well-beaten whites of eggs. 

The richness and strength of ices and 
sherbets may be increased by larger quan- 
tities of sugar and fruit juices added to 
the given proportions of water. Their 
body can be decreased in like proportion, 
but a thin, weak ice or sherbet will not 
please many people. The juice of all 
fruits may be used in ices, and they are 
exceedingly healthful if not eaten to ex- 
cess when a person is greatly heated. They 
are much lighter than ice creams and 
preferable in hot weather. 

The strained juice of strawberries, rasp- 
berries, cherries, currant and raspberry 
mixed, not the fruit itself, make refresh- 
ing ices and the coloring is very tempting. 
A clear lemon ice, without the beaten 
whites of eggs, is very nice to be served 
with boiled mutton, also with raw or escal- 
loped oysters. But it should be strongly 
sweet and sour and so smoothly frozen as 
to cut or serve without any of the gritty 
quality which often characterizes an ice 
not properly beaten. 

An invalid or a sufferer from indiges- 
tion finding it difficult to keep food on 
the stomach, or if retained, who suffers 
because, of it, may eat pineapple sherbet 
with satisfaction and comfort. Taken 
slowly it doesn't chill, and it possesses the 
properties of assimilation and refresh- 
ment which give relief and are also bene- 
ficial. One may eat considerable when 
little or nothing can be endured. Great 
care should be taken, however, to see that 
the pineapple is finely grated, and free 
from any of the little bits of musk or eyes 
bo t asily passer] over. 

When one becomes accustomed to mak 



ing creams and ices, the work is slight — 
with a good freezer — and the results so 
satisfactory as to health and appetite, that 
the habit once formed of frequent use is 
not easily broken. While the city woman 
may have to economize her ice, to have 
all she wants, the country housekeeper and 
the mistress of a farm ought to be able to 
have it in abundance, except in tropical 
climates. A village ice company is gen- 
erally prepared to furnish all the ice there 
is a demand for at reasonable prices; and 
the individual farmer can and ought to 
have a good ice house, for it may be very 
reasonably built, and ice is especially 
desirable on a farm for keeping various 
commodities in good and marketable con- 
dition. Certainly, a farmer's family are 
entitled to all of refreshment and pleasure 
to the taste which cream, eggs, fruits and 
sugar furnish when intelligently combined 
in those delicious refections — ice cream 
and ices. 



A DAINTY BRIDESMAID 
LUNCHEON. 

UNE and brides have been insepa- 
rable in the imagination almost since 
the days when Eve decked herself out in 
the greenery from the Eden Garden, and 
appeared before Adam to compel his ad- 
miration. Every woman who is to be, has 
been, or longs to be, a bride, has the same 
fervent interest in all things pertaining to 
that elect personage, about whom hangs a 
Scotch mist of romance and mystery. 

After the engagement is announced, the 
important marriage preparations begin. 
The bride-to-be from that moment is the 
victim of solicitations and advice from 
numberless friends, on the matter of 
clothes, housekeeping affairs, how to con- 
duct a wedding, the proper smile with 
which to greet husband always, even 
though the "house is on fire and the chil- 
dren all burned." You know the kind, of 
course. 

I am quite as meddling as the rest, so 
1 am going to put my finger in the June 



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bride's pie and tell her of a dainty lunch- 
eon to set before her bridesmaids if she 
wishes to fete them before the wedding. 

The sitting-down luncheon is acknowl- 
edged to be a more gracious and compli- 
mentary form of entertaining than the late 
popular "snack bar" or buffet luncheon. 
So arrange the table first, with a pure 
white cloth, and have as a center piece, 
daisies made up in the shape of a large 
heart. Stand that in an upright position 
and have daisy chains coming from the 
heart and ending at each cover in a true 
lover's knot. Beside each place put the 
name card, cut in the shape of a heart with 
some apt quotation, as for instance: 

To the acknowledged leader of the set. 

"Officious, innocent, sincere; of every 
friendless name the friend." 

The college bred maid found : 

"And still they gazed, and still the wonder 
grew, 
That one small head could carry all she 

knew." 

The fiancee of a struggling young law- 
yer: 

"Her modest looks the cottage might adorn 
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the 
thorn," etc. 

Have daisy chains festooning the mantel 
and side-board ; a large daisy heart on the 
bride's chair with very small hearts on the 
other chairs tied on w T ith love knots, will 
finish the decorations. 

The dishes should be white as far as pos- 
sible. The old-fashioned dishes with the 
dainty rim of gold would be quite, perfect. 
The menu with each course served, to be 
white with a touch of yellow here and there 
in a sauce or garnish will carry out the 
Marguerite effect so appropriate to a 
bride. The menu card can be made from 
white water color paper, cut in shape of 



the daisy petals and printed in the yellow 
center, this verse : 

"Misses! the tale that I relate, 
This lesson seems to carry, 
Choose not alone a proper mate, 
But proper time to marry." 

MENU. 

Shredded Pineapple. 

Puree of Corn Soup. 

Chicken Cutlets. White Sauce. 

Rice Croquettes. 
Cup St. Jacques. Bride's Cake. 

Nuts. Bon-Bons. 

Milk. 
The pineapple is served in punch glass- 
es, to which is added Maraschino (if de- 
sired) sugar and the juice of the orange; 
on top is a layer of crushed ice. 

KECIPES. 

Puree of Corn Soup — Remove the cor* 
from the cob, or if fresh corn is not pro- 
curable, use a can of corn, chop it fine, 
add one pint of boiling water and simmer 
twenty minutes; press the corn through 
a sieve, occasionally adding a little water 
in which the vegetable was cooked, to help 
it through. Make a sauce with one-fourth 
cup of flour and the same of butter, add 
the corn, with chicken or veal stock to 
make a full pint. When ready to serve 
add one pint of milk that has been scalded 
with a slice of onion and a sprig of pars- 
ley, then to the whole add the yolks of 
two eggs beaten and dilute with half a cup 
of thin cream. 

Chicken cutlets are made exactly like 
croquettes, except that they are moulded 
in a flat pear shape, and have a bit of 
wooden stick covered with a frill of white 
paper, stuck in one end. In this case, 
however, the cutlet is moulded in shape of 
a heart, with the stick having a daisy on 
the end thrust through the heart, like 
Cupid's dart. The cutlets should be smoth- 
ered in white sauce, to carry out the white 
scheme. 



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THREE FEBRUARY CAKES. 



Cup St. Jacques is a delicious ice, with 
a foundation of plain lemon ice. The ice 
itself is made from four cups of water and 
two cups of sugar boiled for twenty min- 
utes until syrupy. Three-quarters of a 
cup of lemon juice added, the whole 
strained and frozen. Serve in glasses gar- 
nished on the top with sliced bananas, and 
Malaga grapes, skinned and seeded. 

As milk is the only white drink pro- 
curable, with the exception of wines, it 
would be a pretty idea to get a bright 
and new tin milking pail, with a long 
handled dipper, both decorated with dai- 
sies, and have each guest dip her own milk 
from the pail into goblets on the table for 
the purpose. 

The bon-bons of course are all white and 
the nuts are sugar-coated. 

This luncheon, my dear bride friends, 
with its suggestion of romance about it, is 
all very simple, economical, and quite 
within the reach of everyone who is willing 
to spend a little time in careful planning. 

A charming idea in connection with a 
bridesmaid's luncheon, when given in hon- 
or of the bride-elect, would be, after the 
luncheon was over, to have a bride's cake 
brought in. The cake to be set before the 
guest of honor to cut, and when she should 
try to cut it, instead of a cake it should 
prove to be a box covered with paper and 
filled with farewell gifts to the bride. A 
unique cake filled with many clever con- 
trivances was presented to one bride not 
long ago, by her intimate friends. A pair 
of butter paddles bearing the inscription, 
"To have and to hold from this time forth, 
for butter or etc." was one of the packages 
that the delighted recipient pulled forth. 
"For the trousseau" was a pink paper 
doll's dress. "A friend's miniature" was 
a newspaper cut of President McKinley's, 
done over in water color and framed in a 
cheap gilt frame. A tiny tea kettle tied 
with a large white bow had this significant 
verse attached to it: 

"So soon to wed and happy be, 

Now fewer beaus perchance you'll see ; 



But e'er old friends you quite give up, 
With this old bow come take a cup." 

The last package contained the "key to 
happiness." A key gilded to glowing shin- 
iness, which even then could not match the 
shining happiness in the eyes of little 
bride-elect. 



THREE FEBRUARY CAKES. 

OR a Washington Birthday party 
|S© this cherry tree cake is especially 
prepared. It is made in two layers and 
frosted with a white icing. Use a frosting 
made from white of egg, lemon juice and 
confectioner's sugar, which will not harden 
as quickly as boiled icing. While still soft 
scatter about the top twenty or thirty small 
round, red candies which look like cher- 
ries. Next, around the base about an inch 
apart stick candied cherries. The frost- 
ing will be dry enough for the "painting" 
of the tree to be done. You will want two 
colors, the brown of chocolate mixing with 
icing thinned with a few drops of milk. 
Take a small, fine-pointed brush and paint 
with the chocolate the brown of the tree 
trunk and branches. For the leaves use 
leftf green coloring, which comes in tiny 
glass cans. All you require to color the 
amount of icing needed for leaves is as 
much as you can take up on the end of a 
toothpick. It has powerful coloring quali- 
ties and cannot be used too discreetly. 
Moisten the green icing till it takes the 
consistency of cream and paint in the 
leaves about the cherries in sketchy 
touches. 

The marshmallow cat or mouse cake is 
suitable for a birthday cake. Children will 
appreciate it. Prepare the mice first. 
Gently mold the marshmallows with the 
fingers into elongated shape, and with a 
needle threaded two double with fine white 
thread put in the whiskers, every time 
wiping the needle with a damp cloth. For 
the eyes and nose use pen and ink. The 
ears are tiny squares of white note paper 
folded diagonally and carefully pressed 



THE FOURTH OF JULY PICNIC LUNCH. 



01 



into the head. The tail, made of No. 6 
white cotton, is put in place with the scis- 
sors point. 

Frost the cake, which may be in two 
layers or in a loaf four inches high, with 
chocolate icing. While it is still "tacky" 
stick on the mice ; a dozen will be needed. 
Group two or three at one side as if they 
had gathered to discuss some previous 
crumb, while the others may be climbing 
up the side or just arriving on top. 

The third cake is designed for a valen- 
tine party. It may be a loaf cake with 
the tube making the hole in the center. 
Frost with any color of icing you choose. 
This one is pink — using the ordinary un- 
cooked icing — while around the side and 
on top are the common heart-shaped loz- 
enges, generally called "motto candies." 
In this case they are white. A pretty effect 
may be obtained by using orange icing 
with yellow hearts, or the white hearts 
against a delicate green icing. 



THE FOURTH OF JULY PICNIC 
LUNCH. 

•ISCUIT SANDWICHES — Split 
light, soft milk-biscuits and butter 
them. Put six hard-boiled eggs through 
a potato-ricer ; mince a dozen small, sweet 
cucumber-pickles very fine, and add to the 
eggs ; season with salt, pepper and melted 
butter; spread this filling on the lower 
half of each biscuit, put on the upper half, 
and wrap in tissue-paper. 

Easpberry Sandwiches — Work well to- 
gether one-half pound of sifted sugar, one- 
half pound of butter, two beaten eggs and 
two ounces of ground rice; add seven 
ounces of flour; spread half this mixture, 
upon buttered writing-paper in a shallow 
tin, then a layer of mashed and sweetened 
raspberries ; cover with the remaining half 
of the paste, and bake in a quick oven. 
When cold cut into thick pieces like sand- 
wiches, and wrap in tissue-paper. 

Brown-bread Sandwiches — One pint of 
Graham flour, one pint of corn-meal, one 
cupful of molasses, one cupful of yeast; 



mix soft with warm water, and stand in a 
warm place until light ; mold in pans, let 
rise again, and bake in a moderate oven. 
Cut in thick slices, remove the crust, form 
into sandwiches, using grated ham with a 
sprinkling of grated cheese for the filling. 

Virginia Fried Chicken — Into a hot 
skillet put equal parts of butter and lard ; 
when hot lay in the, pieces of chicken, giv- 
ing each ample space, and first seasoning 
them with salt and pepper and dredging 
with flour. Remove the skillet to that part 
of the range which is but moderately hot ; 
when the under side is delicately browned 
turn the chicken and cook slowly until 
done. When packing for the lunch-basket 
wrap each piece separately in oiled paper. 

Saratoga Potatoes — Use perfectly 
formed potatoes, peel them carefully, and 
slice very thin with a potato-slicer or a 
very sharp knife; let stand in ice-cold 
salt-water for half an hour, in order that 
they may become crisp ; dry in a napkin, 
and fry in boiling-hot lard. 

Columbus Eggs — Take hard-boiled eggs, 
remove the shells, cut the. eggs into halves, 
and remove a little slice from each of the 
ends, to enable them to stand alone in the 
form of cups. Mince the yolks and mix 
with grated ham or tongue; moisten the 
mixture with cream or drawn butter, and 
season with powdered mace or nutmeg; 
fill the empty whites, being careful not to 
break them, then put the two halves to- 
gether ; serve on a flat dish, standing them 
upright, so as to look like whole eggs. 
When packing for the basket wrap in oiled 
paper and arrange in rows in a pasteboard 
box. 

American Chutney — Chop one-half 
peck of green tomatoes, four green peppers 
and two large onions ; drain in a colander 
for one hour, then turn into a kettle, and 
add one gill of salt, one-half pint of lemon- 
juice, one and one-half pints of vinegar, 
one. pint of sugar, one tablespoonful each 
of ground cinnamon, cloves and allspice ; 
heat slowly, and cook one hour. This is a 
most palatable relish. It should be made 
several days before using. 



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A PRETTY COUNTRY LUNCHEON. 



Washington Cake — One pound of flour, 
one pound of white sugar, three-fourths of 
a pound of butter, eight eggs, two nutmegs, 
one pound of seeded raisins and. one pound 
of currants. Bake in a moderate oven. 

Yankee Nut-cakes — To two pounds of 
flour add one-half pound of cut butter, 
three-fourths of a pound of sifted brown 
sugar, a grated nutmeg and one teaspoon- 
f ul of cinnamon ; after mixing these in- 
gredients thoroughly stir in two well- 
beaten eggs, and a little water if necessary ; 
mix the dough with a spoon, then turn out 
on a dough-board, and knead ; roll out into 
a rather thick sheet, cut into strips, and 
fry a delicate brown in boiling fat ; drain 
on a napkin in a large colander. 

In addition to the above dishes, which 
are peculiarly appropriate, others, such as 
cold meats, pickles, olives, salads, lemon- 
ade, and a freezer of cream well packed 
and wrapped, will readily suggest them- 
selves to the minds of those whose task it 
is to provide the lunch. 

Mower Sandwiches — Put a trimmed 
loaf of stale bread and some soft butter 
into a covered jar containing clover, roses, 
violets, lemon verbena, or nasturtiums, and 
let them stand for several hours. Then cut 
the. bread thin and spread with the butter 
and a delicate sandwich saturated with the 
perfume of the flower will be the result, 
esthetic enough for an epicure. 



A PRETTY COUNTRY LUNCHEON. 

A PINK LUNCHEON. 

I HIS dainty luncheon should be served 
during the summer months, when 
foods and flowers of this color are avail- 
able. Cover the table with white linen. 
Use as decorations pink geraniums, roses, 
apple-blossoms, sweet-peas, asters or ver- 
benas. Either or any of the above are 
available in country homes. The prettiest 
of all possible, decorations would be the 



blossoms of the wild crabapple, which may 
be found along the banks of country 
streams. For green use the feathery as- 
paragus foliage. A round glass bowl may 
have a circle of asparagus around the outer 
edge, the center filled with the blossoms. 
A pretty bouquet of the blossoms and as- 
paragus may be placed on each napkin. 
The following menu will be both pretty 
and appropriate for such a luncheon: 

MENU. 

Tomato Soup. 

Saratoga Wafers. 

Ham Sandwiches. Cream Sauce. 

Bolls. 

Pink Radishes. Buttered Beets. 

Whipped Cream. Pink Wafers. 

Coffee. 

The luncheon should be marked with 
simplicity. All food should be daintily 
prepared and served. 

Tomato Soup — At this season of the 
year fresh tomatoes should be, obtainable, 
if not canned ones will make as good a 
soup. Boil a quart of tomatoes until ten- 
der. Rub through a fine colander. Put 
in a sauce-pan, add butter, salt and a dash 
of red and black pepper. Add to this one 
teacup of milk or cream. Heat to boiling 
point, and serve piping hot with wafers. 

Ham Sandwiches — Mince boiled ham. 
Spread between thinly-sliced rolls, add a 
sprinkling of chopped parsley. Make a 
cream sauce by turning a cup of cream 
into a sauce-pan containing one-half cup 
of strong stock in which the ham was 
boiled. Thicken with one 'tablespoon of 
flour. Let boil until the consistency of 
thick cream. Send to the table hot. 

The pink wafers may be made by add- 
ing a bit of red fruit coloring to the icing, 
then covering either thin wafer crackers 
or tiny home-made cakes. 

If in season strawberries could be sub- 
stituted for whipped cream. 



BOOK II 



CHURCH ENTERTAINMENTS 



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A YELLOW TEA. 

HE decorations should be yellow and 
white; the walls may be draped in 
yellow bunting or cheesecloth; the tables 
twelve in number, each seating four per- 
sons, should be in white napery, with 
flower decorations in yellow ; these may be 
of asters, chrysanthemums, rose, golden- 
rod, lilies, jonquils or buttercups, accord- 
ing to the season. Sunflowers will be 
found effective decorations for the room, 
but are too heavy for table decorations. 

The refreshments may consist of yellow 
ices, gold cake, yellow peaches and whip- 
ped cream, or bananas and oranges, and 
yellow ice cream in fancy designs. The 
waiters should wear yellow gowns, with 
white aprons, caps and neck ornaments. 

As the guests depart from the table they 
are handed the following Tea Game, with 
the instructions to solve same and place on 
a waiter which occupies a table in the 
center of the room; as the cards are de- 
posited here they are collected by a com- 
mittee appointed for the purpose and cor- 
rected; the guests who have succeeded in 
solving the same, correctly are presented 
with bouquets of yellow chrysanthemums. 

TEA GAME. 

1— "The soul of wit?" (Brevity.) 
2— "The best policy?" (Honesty.) 
3— "Never f aileth ?" ( Charity. ) 
4 — Possession of gossips? (Curiosity.) 
5 — The power of the age ? (Electricity.) 
6 — A pretty girl's temptation ? (Vanity.) 
7 — A criminal's dread ? (Captivity.) 
8— "The six hundred ?" ( Society. ) 



9 — Everlasting ? ( Eternity. ) 
10 — Our treasured possession ? (Liberty.) 
11 — The mother of invention? (Neces- 
sity.) 
12 — What each day brings? (Duty.) 
13— "The spice of life?" (Variety.) 
14 — Pleasing to the eye ? (Beauty.) 
15 — Quick at repartee ? (Witty.) 
16 — Safe from harm? (Security.) 
17 — Sober reflection ? (Gravity.) 
18 — Great speed? (Velocity.) 
19— "Three in one ?" (Trinity.) 
20 — Results of accidents? (Fatality.) 



CHILDREN'S DAY EXERCISES. 

1 — Processional — All classes of school. 

2 — Twenty-third Psalm. 

3— Song. 

4 — Invocation. 

5— Song, "A June Carol." 

6 — Recitation. 

7 — Song, "We Are Little Friends of 
Jesus." 

8 — Recitation. 

9— Song, " 'Tis Sunshine." 
10 — Instrumental duet. 
11 — Recitation, "The Master's Workers." 
12— Song, "Six Little Sunbeams." 
13 — Responsive reading, Psalm 107. 
14— 

15 — Prayer. 
16— Song, "We will Meet Together." 
17 — Class recitation, "A Little Boy's 

Thoughts." 
18— Duet, "We Thank Thee Our Heaven- 
ly Father." 
19 — Address, Pastor. 



Song, "Soft Summer Breezes." 



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20 — Song. 

2 1 — Benediction. 

RESPONSIVE READING, PSALM 107. 

Supt. — "O give thanks unto the Lord, 
for he is good; for his mercy endureth 
forever." 

Cong. — a Let the redeemed of the Lord 
say so, whom he hath redeemed from the 
hand of the enemy." 

Supt. — "And gathered them out of the 
lands, from the east, and from the west, 
from the north, and from the south." 

Cong. — "They wandered in the wilder- 
ness in a solitary way ; they found no city 
to dwell in." 

Supt. — "Hungry and thirsty, their soul 
fainted in them." 

Cong. — "Then they cried unto the Lord 
in their trouble, and he delivered them out 
of their distresses." 

Supt. — "And he led them forth by the 
right way, that they might go to a city of 
habitation." 

Cong. — "Oh that men would praise the 
Lord for his goodness, and for his wonder- 
ful works to the children of men !" 

Supt. — "For he satisfieth the longing 
soul, and filleth the hungry soul with 
goodness." 

Cong. — "Such as sit in darkness and 
in the shadow of death, being bound in 
affliction and iron." 

Supt. — "Because they rebelled against 
the words of God, and contemned the 
counsel of the most High." 

Cong. — "Therefore he brought down 
their heart with labor ; they fell down, 
and there was none to help." 

Supt. — "Then they cried unto the Lord 
in their trouble, and he saved them out of 
their distresses." 

Cong. — "He brought them out of dark- 
ness and the shadow of death, and brake 
their bands in sunder." 

Supt. — "Oh that men would praise the 
Lord for his goodness, and for his wonder- 
ful works to the children of men." 

Cong. — "For he hath broken the gates of 
brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder." 



Supt. — "Fools, because of their trans- 
gression, and because of their iniquities 
are afflicted." 

Cong. — "Their soul abhorreth all man- 
ner of meat ; and they draw near unto the 
gates of death." 

Supt. — "Then they cry unto the Lord 
in their trouble, and he saveth them out 
of their distresses." 

Cong. — "He sent his word and healed 
them, and delivered them from their de- 
structions." 

Supt. — "Oh that men would praise the 
Lord for his goodness, and for his wonder- 
ful works to the children of men!" 

(Note — The above program was given 
in the Moody Church Sunday School, Chi- 
cago, 111., June 9, 1901, and is herein 
given by the consent of the superintendent, 
A. F. Gaylord.) 



A LONGFELLOW FAIR. 

IHIS entertainment may be held on 
the anniversary of Longfellow's 
birth, February 27th. A number of 
booths may be arranged, each to represent 
some portion of Longfellow's works. 

One booth may be in the form of an 
Indian wigwam, presided over by a couple 
of young people dressed to represent Hia- 
watha and Minnehaha; this booth may 
be devoted to articles of Indian workman- 
ship and should be decorated in true In- 
dian fashion ; the walls hung with blank- 
ets and skins. Here displayed for sale 
may be found wicker baskets of all de- 
scriptions, from the tiny button basket to 
the huge clothes hamper; beaded articles 
of many kinds, moccasins made from the 
skins of animals as only Indians know 
how to make them, beaded draperies, pot- 
tery, toys, etc. If desired a person to rep- 
resent old Nokomis may be seated in the 
background, intent on some bit of Indian 
bead work. Each purchaser may be pre- 
sented with a little souvenir in the shape 
of a card-board Indian hatchet, bearing 
the following quotation, from the "Song of 
Hiawatha :" 



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"From the wigwam be departed, 
Leading with him Laughing Water ; 
Hand in hand they went together, 
Through the woodland and the meadow. " 

The next booth may simulate a log 
cabin; the interior to be decorated in 
colonial style. In this booth may be had 
for sale all sorts of old-time articles, as 
samplers, pewter dishes, candle-sticks, 
andirons, etc. The young ladies having 
this booth in charge may be dressed to 
represent "Priscilla" and "Evangeline.'' 
The souvenirs from this booth are. spin- 
ning-wheel shaped and bear the words : 

"Why don't you speak for yourself, 
John?" 

The third booth is constructed for the 
especial pleasure of the children; it may 
be modeled after a big easy chair on the 
exterior, while the interior is a hollow 
square; here may be found all sorts of 
goodies children delight in, confectionery, 
fruits, pop-corn and nuts. The little girls 
having this booth in charge may be chosen 
to represent "Grave Alice and laughing 
Allegra, and Edith with golden hair." 
Souvenirs cut in the form of the old arm 
chair and bearing the words: 

"Ye are better than all the ballads 
That ever were sung or said, 
Eor ye are living poems 
And all the rest are dead." 

The refreshment booth may consist of 
a number of beautifully decorated arches 
resting on colonial pillars; the table 
napery should be white and the decorations 
of some old-time garden flower, hearts- 
ease or pinks would be pretty. The table 
should contain all old style dishes avail- 
able, and the waiters should wear colonial 
dresses. The refreshments may be colo- 
nial or modern according to fancy. 

A booth representing a hunting lodge 
would be a novel feature ; here should be 
found all the paraphernalia of a sports- 



man's life; the walls draped with fishing- 
tackle, furs and skins, and the ever-ready 
musket over the door. This should be 
under the supervision of three young men 
dressed to represent "John Alden," "Miles 
Standish," and "Basil the Blacksmith." 
The articles for sale may include fishing- 
tackle, balls of all kinds, tennis outfits, 
kites, marbles, knives, etc. 

If music is desired a quartette of young- 
ladies may render some of the Longfellow 
poems which have been set to music, 
among which are "The Bridge," "Excel- 
sior," and "The Psalm of Life." 



PROGRESSIVE ANATOMY SOCIAL. 

IHIS will be found a very unique af- 
fair. Five tables should be provided, 
one for each set of players. The winner 
at the first table passes on to the next and 
thus continues until the last table is 
reached, when the count is made, and the 
winner presented with the prize. 

TABLE NO. I. 

Queer Hands. 

1 — A hand used by officers of the law ? 

(Hand-cuff.) 
2 — A hand used to summon ? (Hand- 
bell.) 
3 — A shopping companion ? (Hand- 
bag.) 
4 — A hand to scatter round ? (Hand- 
bill.) 
5 — A reference? (Hand-book.) 
6 — A helper? (Hand-maiden.) 
7— All we can hold ? (Hand-ful.) 
8 — An athletic feat ? (Hand-spring.) 
9 — Chirography ? (Hand-writing.) 
10 — A race? (Hand-i-cap.) 
11 — A useful hand? (Hand-kerchief.) 
12 — That which produces admiration? 
(Hand-some.) 

TABLE NO. II. 

Queer Heads. 
1— A head that travels? (Head-light. N > 
2 — A head that sails the waters o'er? 
(Head-sail.) 



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-An unpleasant head? (Head-ache.) 

-A head used for food? (Head- 
cheese. ) 

-A head which marks progress? 
(Head- way.) 

-A head found in a cemetery ? (Head- 
stone. ) 

-A head found in water? (Head- 
fish.) 

-A head that leads to trouble ? (Head- 
strong. ) 

-A head used for adornment? (Head- 
dress.) 

-A cape? (Head-land.) 

-Mental labor? (Head-work.) 

-To pitch forward? (Head-long.) 



TABLE NO. III. 

Queer Feet. 

A foot of which boys are fond ? 

(Foot-ball.) 
A foot we tremble to meet? (Foot- 
pad.) 
A foot found in the sand? (Foot- 
print. ) 
A foot near mountains ? (Foot-hills. ) 
A foot found in theaters? (Foot- 
light.) 
A foot we follow? (Foot-path.) 
A useful foot? (Foot-man.) 
A foot that lives in books? (Foot- 
note.) 
A foot used in rest? (Foot-stool.) 
A foot often needed? (Foot-bath.) 
A foot used for protection ? ( Foot- 
soldiers.) 

12 — A foot we shall all possess? (Foot- 
stone.) 

TABLE NO. IV. 

Queer Toes. 

-A filthy toe? (Tobacco.) 
-A fine sport? (Toboggan.) 
-A garment toe? (Toga.) 
-A symbolic toe ? (Token.) 
-A vegetable toe? (Tomato.) 
-A city toe? (Toronto.) 
-An ever present toe? (To-dav.) 
A stylish toe? (Tony.) 
-The complete toe? (Total.) 



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10 — A playful toe? (Tow-head, urchin.) 
11 — An edible toe? (Potato.) 
(Toper.) 



12 — A drinking toe? 



TABLE NO. V. 

Queer Hair. 

1 — A hair that sings? (Hair-bird.) 
2 — A hair found in meadows ? (Hair- 
bells.) 
3 — A hair found in an article of jewelry ? 

(Hair-spring.) 
4 — A hair that marks distance ? (Hair- 
breadth. ) 
5 — A hair worn by ladies? (Hair- 
cloth.) 
6 — A professional hair ? (Hair-dresser.) 
7 — A woman's weapon ? (Hair-pin.) 
8 — A hair that flies? (Hair-streak — 

butterfly. ) 
9 — A hair that crawls? (Hair-worm.) 
10 — A hair that swims ? (Hair-tail, fish.) 
11 — A hair that leaps? (Hare.) 
12 — A hair that indicates giddiness ? 
(Hair-brained.) 



A HOLIDAY FETE. 

I^JHIS will be found a most delightful 
church entertainment. Booths repre- 
senting each holiday of the year should be 
erected. First will be the New Year; 
this should be decorated to represent win- 
ter season. Cotton, plentifully sprinkled 
with powdered isinglass and glittering gold 
dust, icicles formed from pasteboard 
wrapped in tin foil, and of the glass pen- 
dants belonging to the old-time hanging 
lamp, will be found most effective decora- 
tions. In this booth should be served ice 
cream, iced drinks, and fruit ices. The 
young ladies having charge of the booth 
may be dressed as Snow Queens. 

A heart-shaped booth may represent St. 
Valentine's Day. This booth should be 
decorated in fancy valentines. Here may 
be found for sale embossed scrap-pictures, 
pretty engravings and art pictures, with 
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same, booklets and fancy cards and valen- 
tines. 

Washington's Birthday may be repre- 
sented by an old-time colonial kitchen ; the 
exterior decoration may consist of flags 
and bunting; inside the floor should be 
sanded, and marked off in fancy design. 
Strings of dried apples, pumpkin and pop- 
corn in the ear, should be suspended from 
the ceiling. A spinning-wheel should be 
added and a spinning contest should bo 
the attraction of this booth, each guest 
paying a small fee for the privilege, of 
entering into the contest. The judges of 
this contest should be three old grand- 
mothers of other days who are acquainted 
with the art of spinning through personal 
experience. The most successful contest- 
ant may be presented with a small prize 
in the shape of Louisa Majy Alcott's book, 
"Spinning Wheel Stories." The ladies 
having charge of this booth should be 
dressed in the costume of long ago ; gowns 
with full sleeves and skirts, neckerchiefs, 
powdered hair, and caps. 

Easter, which commemorates the resur- 
rection of all nature, may be decorated as 
Spring. The booth should be flower-decked 
and should be given to the sale of the 
same. Young girls attired as flower-girls 
should preside at these tables. Potted and 
cut flowers, seeds and bulbs may here be 
sold. A plentiful stock of decorated china 
darning eggs may be added, if desired. 

Arbor Day should be made a bower of 
greenery. The booth may be a square pa- 
vilion supported by four round pillars, 
each of which is twined with vines; the 
roof may be thatched with evergreen; the 
interior decoration should be palms and 
ferns. Here may be found for sale pretty 
articles of carved wood. 

Fourth of July may be represented by 
a soldier's tent draped in bunting and 
flags; within should be found all sorts of 
fireworks, kites, tops, marbles, in fact 
everything that a boy delights in. This 
booth may be superintended by several 
boys dressed in the costume of the Ameri- 
can soldier and navy. 



Labor Day may be an ordinary shop 
affair where all manner of useful house- 
hold articles may be found, as laundry 
bags, dish towels, dusters, whisk brooms, 
brushes, etc. 

Thanksgiving Day should be decorated 
in ripened grains and all manner of fruits 
and vegetables. Here may be found all 
varieties of fruits and nuts, or, if desired, 
a regular old-time Thanksgiving dinner 
may be served at fifty cents per cover. 

The exterior decorations of the Christ- 
mas booth should consist of evergreen. 
Within should be fashioned an old-time 
fireplace, around which are hung stock- 
ings filled with all sorts of Christmas 
"goodies." A pretty Christmas tree may 
be added, beautifully lighted with colored 
candles. This booth should be dedicated 
to the sale of confectionery, both fancy 
and home-made. 

This holiday fete will be found a lucra- 
tive as well as pretty affair. 



AN OLD FOLKS' RECEPTION. 

VEKY pleasant church social will 
be found in an Old Folks' Recep- 
tion. This reception is given by the young 
people to the old members of the congrega- 
tion. In all churches there are aged persons 
who are. virtually "shut ins," so far as any 
social features of the church are con- 
cerned; in pleasant weather they may be 
able to attend the regular Sunday services 
of the church, but at this point their at- 
tendance ceases. This entertainment is 
provided for the pleasure of these unfor- 
tunate ones. 

As nearly as can be the arrangements 
should be kept a secret from the old peo- 
ple ; the invitations should be sent and 
with them a card announcing that a car- 
riage would be sent for them at a certain 
hour; this is all they need know and the 
conjecture as to what is to occur will fur- 
nish a theme for pleasant reflection until 
the day arrives. 

The hour set for the reception should be 



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late afternoon and early evening. It 
should be held in the church parlor, or, 
if it be in a country church of but one 
room, this may be converted into a parlor 
by removing the center section of seats and 
providing comfortable rockers and soft 
rugs to give a "homey" appearance. The 
church should be prettily decorated in 
flowers and potted plants, a bright cheery 
reception committee appointed, and a 
pleasant time will be afforded each guest. 

One corner of the church should be par- 
titioned off with screens, thus affording a 
temporary kitchen furnished with a serv- 
ing-table and small oil stove. Small 
tables may be provided for serving refresh- 
ments ; if these are not available the old- 
time lap-supper may be served. The re- 
freshments should consist of coffee, sand- 
wiches, fruits, cake and a relish of some 
sort. 

After the serving of the refreshments 
all traces of the repast should be cleared 
away, the table, stove and screens removed, 
and all prepare to enjoy the entertainment 
provided for these aged guests; this 
should consist of old-time music, both 
sacred and otherwise, a talk by the pastor, 
and an old-fashioned experience meeting 
in which all visitors have a part. 

Souvenirs in the form of pretty bou- 
quets of cut flowers will be appropriate. 
This entertainment will be enjoyed by all ; 
by the young people because of the con- 
sciousness that they have provided happi- 
ness for others, and by the older ones in 
that they have been remembered by the 
younger ones. 



AUTUMN HARVEST HOME. 

, HAKVEST HOME may be made 
jt\" an admirable church entertainment 
and a decided financial success. 

If possible this entertainment should be 
held in the open air, under a grove of 
trees. It is a miniature "county fair." 
Dinner, which has been donated by the 
various members of the congregation, 



should be served from long tables, spread 
under the trees, or within a tent erected 
for the occasion. The tables may be beau- 
tifully decorated with garlands and sprays 
of autumn leaves and flowers, the beauti- 
ful roadside asters being especially adapt- 
ed for table decorations. A stall should 
be erected and thatched with branches of 
bright-hued maples, under which the ticket 
seller stands and sells dinner tickets at 
twenty-five cents each. 

Prizes should be offered for the best 
display of garden, orchard and farm prod- 
ucts, the products to become the property 
of the society after the close of the exhibit ; 
these articles may be sold to the dealers of 
the town, thus making another source of 
revenue. A booth should be erected for 
the display of these articles, and should be 
attractively decorated. 

Under a pavilion prettily decorated 
with flags and bunting should be offered 
for sale various delicacies of culinary skill, 
as different varieties of cakes, pies and 
bread. 

Another booth may be devoted to con- 
fectionery, pop-corn and nuts ; another to 
ices, ice cream and various cooling drinks. 
A third to dairy products, containing but- 
ter, different varieties of cheese, and sweet 
milk and buttermilk for drinking. 

Another stall may be devoted to jells, 
marmalade, jam and preserves, while a 
table containing potted plants, cut flowers, 
garden and flower seeds and bulbs will be 
found to receive a liberal amount of pat- 
ronage. 

Entertainment in the form of music by 
a good band or glee club, short speeches 
on farm topics will prove a drawing card 
for this affair. 



PILLOW AND BAG SALE. 

fHE most popular church fair or ba- 
zaar is the one which offers the most 
useful articles for sale. There are many 
housewives who would gladly patronize the 
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tained at a reasonable figure; to this end 
we submit the following suggestions for a 
Pillow and Bag Sale. 

The fair should be held in the church 
parlors, or some equally convenient place, 
and may continue for three or four even- 
ings of a weej^. A simple luncheon may 
be served each evening, thus adding to the 
church fund. 

The booths may be various designs ; pa- 
vilions, Indian wigwams, open stalls, etc., 
each of which should be decorated with 
samples of the articles to be had within. 

The present craze for pillows of all 
sorts, shapes and sizes, from the homely 
denim porch cushion to the elaborate em- 
broidered, lace and ribbon-trimmed parlor 
affair, will tend to make these a very prof- 
itable, source of revenue. 

Of bags, the name is legion, and no 
more useful articles of household fur- 
nishings are to be found. 

Very serviceable laundry bags are made 
of plain or art denim, constructed with a 
buttoned opening down the front and a 
draw-string run through the top ; this 
double, opening making it easy to remove 
the clothing once it is packed full. Sepa- 
rate laundry bags for handkerchiefs, col- 
lars or cuffs are prized. These are made 
of white linen on which the words "Hand- 
kerchiefs," "Collars," or "Cuffs" are 
embroidered in wash silks, and are hung 
with ribbons the shade of the embroidery. 
These are very bright and cheerful. 

The old-time shoe bag is yet a popular 
favorite, constructed of brown holland 
linen, with a number of pockets, the whole 
bound in red tape; it is neat as well as 
serviceable, and no closet is complete with- 
out one of these useful bags hung on the 
inside of its door. 

Beautiful satchet pads for lining dresser 
drawers and trunk tills are made of china 
silk, padded with sheet-wadding, over 
which satchet powder has been generously 
sprinkled. 

Opera-glass and spectacle bags are con- 
structed of chamois skin, which may now 

be had in beautiful shades of gray, tan, 
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fawn and violet. These are decorated 
with embroidered or painted sprays of flow- 
ers and hung by ribbons of contrasting 
colors; these will be found good sellers. 

Traveling bags made in the dark shades 
of denim and bound with bright braids 
are quite popular as well as serviceable. 
They contain a half-dozen pockets for 
brushes, combs, curling-irons, slippers, 
etc. On the upper border the initials of 
the buyer may be stamped ready for work- 
ing, or the words "Bon Voyage" may be 
painted or embroidered. 

A very useful article in these days of 
veranda sitting-rooms is a bag of white 
duck, in which is placed various articles 
used in light sewing and mending. The 
bag is so arranged that it may be drawn 
together at the top, when not in use, and 
hung away beside the porch chair or set- 
tee. 

For ministers, teachers and literary peo- 
ple in general the scrap-bag will be found 
popular; it is made of brown linen and 
is a series of pockets arranged one above 
the other for the reception of newspaper 
clippings ; across these pockets are stamped 
the word "History," "Travel," etc., the 
clipping being thus classified and easily 
found when desired for reference. 

Kitchen bags, containing a supply of 
neatly hemmed dish-towels are always in 
demand for busy housewives, as are bags 
containing a supply of various holders 
used about the kitchen. 

Pretty dust-bags containing hemmed 
cheesecloth dusting cloths are made of 
bright flowered cretonne. 

Many new designs in these useful 
household articles will present themselves 
to a society of ladies wishing to give this 
sort of a church affair, and a very profit- 
able sale it will be found. 



A MILITARY SOCIAL. 

MILITAEY SOCIAL will be found 
a novel way of raising church funds. 
The church should be decorated in the 
national colors. An admission fee is 



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charged at the door ; on entering, each 
guest is handed a prettily decorated card x 
on which the following program of the 
evening's entertainment is written. The 
decorations on the cards consist of pen- 
drawings of scenes in the life of a soldier. 
Following is a list of the evening's en- 
tertainment : 

I. 

Military Drill en Costume. 

II. 

Campfire War Songs. 

III. 

Tableaux. 

IY. 

Refreshments. 

V. 

Contests. 

VI. 

Martial Music. 

VII. 
Reminiscence. 

The first number of the program is 
performed by thirty-two boys dressed in 
uniform, and the drill is carried out with 
military precision. This drill will not be 
found difficult if directed by some person 
who understands the art of marching in 
single file, by twos, by fours, by platoons, 
in circles, chains and serpentine paths. 
The effect will be pleasing. 

In arranging for the camp-fire the lights 
should be turned out. On the platform 
should be placed a number of logs; inter- 
spersed among them are electric light 
globes wrapped in red tissue paper. When 
these lights are turned on the effect will 
be very like a camp fire (this may be ar- 
ranged before the doors open, and may be 
hidden from view by a screen placed in 
such manner as to form a part of the stage 
setting). Old war songs, led by a chorus 
and sung by the entire audience, are now 
in order. "Tenting To-night on the Old 
Camp Ground," 'Must Before the Battle," 
"Dixie," "The Girl I Left Behind Me," 
etc., will be appropriate. The effect will 



be heightened if the boys who performed 
the first part of the program are grouped 
about the fire. The newer ballads of the 
late war may be introduced if desired. 

The refreshments may consist of a sim- 
ple collation, or may be served in the 
form of the old-time box-supper, each box 
containing luncheon for two, which is pur- 
chased by the gentleman and shared with 
the lady whose name is found within. 

The contests are type-written, and a 
small fee is charged each person taking 
part in same. The successful contestant 
being entitled to a small prize, The first 
contest is a list of disguised generals, the 
second is hidden accoutrements of war- 
fare. 

DISGUISED GENERALS. 

1 — What general is like foliage on a 

summer's morning ? (Dewey.) 
2 — What general is like a level pasture 

land? (Lee — lea.) 
3 — What general stores up sweetness for 

fellow men? (Bee.) 
4 — What general is always punctual ? 

(Early.) 
5 — What general was a portion of an ani- 
mal ? (Bacon.) 
6 — What general is a carnivorous ani- 
mal ? (Wolfe.) 
7 — What general is found in a ship? 

(Hull.) 
8 — What general's name is multitude? 

(Jones.) 
9 — What general represents the par value 
of an article? (Price.) 
10 — What general is a tower of strength ? 

(Sampson.) 
11 — What general bestows favors ? 

(Grant.) 
12 — What general sounds his own praises ? 

(Bragg.) 
13 — What general is found in the dining 

room? (Butler.) 
14 — What general represents a unit of 

measure? (Foote.) 
15 — What general is found in every in- 

closure ? (Gates.) 
10 — What general is hearty? (Hale.) 



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17 — What general makes a comfortable 

head-covering \ (Hood. ) 
18 — What general is used in asking a 

question? (Howe.) 
19 — What general is fond of the chase? 

(Hunter.) 
20 — What general is the head of a church ? 

(Pope.) 

HIDDEN ACCOUTREMENTS OF WAR. 

1 — When I see the street car, I flee away. 

(Rifle.) 
2 — There is the dog, under the table. 

(Gun.) 
3 — What a beautiful bay, O Nettie, look ! 

(Bayonet.) 
4 — Tip, I stole your dinner. (Pistol.) 
5 — There is a breeze from the lake now. 

(Sabre.) 
G — That pickpocket will rob all of them. 

(Ball.) 
7 — That is the flower he sent in Ella's 

letter. (Sentinel.) 
8 — Was it an arm or leg that was bro- 
ken? (Armor.) 
9 — The wheels revolve round a pivot. 

(Bevolver.) 
10 — His word is good anywhere. (Sword.) 

At the close of the contest the papers 
are collected and placed in the hands of a 
committee who award the prizes at the 
close of the evening's entertainment. 

The reminiscence may take the form of 
short addresses by prominent persons in 
the company, or may be given by old sol- 
diers previously engaged for this part. 
The company may be divided into squads, 
each squad containing its soldier, who be- 
comes the entertainer. The military mu- 
sic should be rendered by a band or 
stringed orchestra. During the time the 
music is being rendered the company may 
devote the time to social intercourse. 



THANKSGIVING IN THE CHURCH. 

SPECIAL Thanksgiving exercises are 
usually held in our churches, but as 
a rule consist of a sermon only. The fol- 
lowing suggestive exercise is given for the 



aid of those who may desire a somewhat 
different manner of observing the day: 

1 — Song, "America." 
2 — Invocation, Pastor. 
3 — Scriptural reading. 
4 — Beading of Thanksgiving proclama- 
tion. 
5 — Anthem, selected. 
6 — Becitation, "Give Thanks," Perry. 
7 — Paper, "The First Thanksgiving." 
8 — Song, "Bringing in The Sheaves." 
9 — Becitations, 

"Elsie's Thanksgiving," Margaret 

E. Sangster. 
"Thanksgiving," Anon. 
"A Xew England Thanksgiving," 
Sel. 
10— Song, "He Feedeth His Flock." 
11 — Scriptural Thankfulness. Beferences 

read by congregation. 
12— Song, "Oh, Beautiful Home." 
13— Why Our Church Should Give 

Thanks. * 

14 — Class recitation, " "A Thanksgiving 

Hymn," Carleton (five girls). 
15 — Song, selected. 
16 — Offering. 
1 7 — Benediction. 

A THANKSGIVING HYMN ( CLASS EXERCISE ). 

First Girl: — 

"We thank Thee, O Father, for all that is 
bright — - **» 

The gleam of the day, and the stars of 
the night; 

The flowers of our youth and the fruits 
of our prime, 

And blessings that march down the path- 
way of time. 

Second Girl: — 

"We thank Thee, O Father, for all that 

is dear — 
The sob of the tempest, the flow of the 

tear; 
For never in blindness, and never in 

vain, 
Thy mercy permitted a sorrow or pain. 



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Third Girl:— 

"We thank Thee, O Father, for song and 
for feast — 

The harvest that glowed and the wealth 
that increased; 

For never a blessing encompassed earth's 
child 

But Thou in Thy mercy looked down- 
ward and smiled. 

Fourth Girl: — 

"We thank Thee, O Father of All, forThy 

power ' 
Of aiding each other in life's darkest 

hour ; 
The generous heart and the bountiful 

hand, 
And all the soul help that sad souls 

understand. 

Fifth Girl:— 

"We thank Thee, O Father, for days yet 

to be— 
For hopes that our future will call us 

to Thee ; 
That all our Eternity form, through Thy 

love, 
The Thanksgiving day in the mansions 

above." 



AN ORIENTAL FETE. 

fN this fete the booths should be decor- 
ated in the style peculiar to the in- 
habitants of the Orient. 

A Turkish booth is hung with oriental 
hangings, contains low ottomans for seats, 
and has for sale a table, full of turkish 
curios of every kind. The person having 
charge of this booth should be clad in 
Turkish costume, consisting of a long, 
loose robe, loose sleeves and a broad sash 
draped from shoulder to waist. 

A pretty booth may be constructed of 
umbrellas of Japanese design. These um- 
brellas may be had of large size, especially 
designed for decorative purposes. This 
booth may be devoted to Japanese ware, 
beautiful plaques, servers, trays and toilet 



accessories may be purchased at the Japan- 
ese stores in the city, and may be sold at 
a small profit. These articles will be es- 
pecially appreciated in a rural community 
where such articles are not easily obtained. 

A third booth may be decorated in fancy 
fans, very pretty ones of oriental make 
are obtainable; this booth should be de- 
voted to the sale of fans, of all colors, 
shape and sizes. A pretty Japanese cos- 
tume may be worn by the person having 
this booth in charge. 

The Chinese booth may be decorated 
with paper lanterns, of which they are the. 
manufacturers ; fire-works, tops, kites and 
curious toys may here be found to delight 
the hearts of the children. The refresh- 
ments for this occasion may be served 
from small tables, placed under a Chinese 
pagoda, completely covered with decora- 
tions formed from paper napkins; the 
pagoda may first be covered with muslin, 
either white or a pretty color, and the nap- 
kins fastened to the muslin in the shape 
of fans, butterflies, etc. The refreshments 
should consist of rice, tea and fruits; of 
fruits, dates and figs would be appropriate. 

If a literary entertainment is desired in 
addition to the Fete a short programme 
of music and addresses, relating to mis- 
sionary work in the far East, would be ap- 
propriate. A good stereopticon with views 
of the Orient would be a drawing card. 



EASTER EXERCISE. 

For Sunday School or Junior Society. 

1— Song— "Christ is Kisen." 

2 — Concert Reading — 98th Psalm. 

3 — Invocation. 

4— Song— "Risen With Him." 

5 — Recitations, 

"The Very Same Jesus."— Burr. 

"He Comes Again." — Selected. 

"Only Waiting." — Anon. 
6— Anthem— "Sing Hallelujah." 
7 — Class Exercise — "Sometime." 
8— Song— "Thev Sing a New Song." 
9— Address— "Easter." 



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10— Song— "Come Unto Me." 
11 — Responsive Reading. 
12 — Song — "Wondrous Love." 
1 3 — Recitations, 

"An Easter Dawn." — Minna Ir- 
ving. 

"The Easter Lily."— Anon. 
14 — Duet — Selected. 
15 — Address by Pastor. 
16— Closing Song— "Abide With Me." 

RESPONSIVE READING. 

Swpt. — O sing unto the Lord a new 
song; sing unto the Lord, all the earth. 

Cong. — Sing unto the Lord, bless His 
name ; show forth His salvation from day 
to day. 

Supt. — Declare His glory among the 
heathen, His wonders among the people. 

Cong. — For the Lord is great, and 
greatly to be praised ; He is to be feared 
above all gods. 

Supt. — For all the gods of the nations 
are idols; but God made the heavens. 

Cong. — Honor and majesty are before 
Him ; strength and beauty are in His 
sanctuary. 

Supt. — Give unto the Lord, oh ye kin- 
dreds of the people, give unto the Lord 
glory and strength. 

Cong. — Give unto the. Lord the glory 
due unto His name; bring an offering 
and come unto His courts. 

Supt. — O worship the Lord in the 
beauty of holiness; fear before Him, all 
the earth. 

Cong. — Say among the heathen that the 
Lord reigneth; the world also shall be 
established that it shall not be moved ; He 
shall judge the people righteously. 

Supt. — Let the heavens rejoice, and let 
the earth be glad; let the sea roar and 
the fulness thereof. 

Cong. — Let the field be joyful, and all 
that is therein ; then shall all the trees of 
the wood rejoice. 

Supt. — Before the Lord ; for He cometh, 
for He cometh to judge the earth ; He 
shall judge the world with righteousness, 
and the people with His truth. 



CLASS EXERCISE- 



SOMETIME. 



First Child :- 



Sometime in the great hereafter 
We shall know why the shadows fell, 
Why the. roses so soon were blighted 
We had loved and cherished so well. 
The sun had been shining brightly 
When the fleecy cloud appeared, 
And the shadows lengthened and deep- 
ened 
Till our fondest hopes were seared. 

Second Child: — 

Sometime in the life immortal 
We shall know why our listening ears 
Caught no sound but life's long discord, 
As it filled the passing years. 
Along the tiresome, journey 
There was gladness about the way, 
And the flowers lost their sweetness . 
And we tramped them day by day. 

Third Child:— 

Sometime in the realm of glory 
All our prayers will answered be, 
And our doubts will all be buried 
In the depths of the crystal sea. 
The things that tried us most 
Will be strewn on the glistening wave, 
And the selfish aims of life 
Keep a watch in the silent grave. 

Fourth Child: — 

Sometime when the songs of earth 
Have been blended with those above, 
And the harps and voices swell 
To the chords of infinite love, 
Our cares and crosses forgotten 
And our hearts, though attuned to pain, 
Shall awake to the notes of sweetness 
In the glad angelic strain. 

Fifth Child:— 

Sometime when the sun and the stars 
In their golden glory have set, 
And our souls with the souls we loved 



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A RING SOCIAL. 



In the great beyond have met, 
The shadows that touched our lives 
As the tints on the white sea foam, 
Shall illume the beauty of heaven 
When we rest in that blessed home. 



A RING SOCIAL. 



HE ring social is entirely new and 
decidedly novel; the rooms should 
be decorated in paper chains, composed of 
rings ; the manner of making these chains 
is as follows : > Cut the paper (glazed in 
colors is best, though French tissue does 
very well) in strips about three inches long 
and a half inch wide ; now take a slip of 
the paper, bring the ends together and 
fasten with a bit of library paste; now 
slip another piece of paper through this 
ring; bring the ends together and fasten, 
the result will be one link of the chain; 
continue in this manner until the chain is 
of the desired length ; these chains should 
be suspended from the corners of the ceil- 
ing to the chandeliers, and festooned 
around the walls; the eifect is beautiful. 

The refreshment tables should be circu- 
lar, and the cakes, ices, etc., should be. 
cut in circles. For table decoration, se- 
cure a round mirror, place it in the center 
of the table, cover the frame with a wreath 
of smilax ; in the, center set a round bowl 
filled with wild roses or carnations ; bou- 
tonnieres may be provided for guests, if it 
be a private social. 

The ring idea may be carried into the 
amusements of the evening ; a large cake, 
in which a gold ring has been placed be- 
fore the baking, may be auctioned off to 
the highest bidder; this cake should be 
prettily decorated with flowers and given 
a small table, all to itself, that the future 
(•(.ill est ;ints may have an opportunity to 
feast ilicir eyes upon its beauty. 

A King Game may be played by selling 
the following written list to the guests, 
a prize being offered the successful con- 
testant: 



RING GAME. 



1 — A ring where fortunes are made and 

lost? (Prize.) 
2 — A ring sought by young ladies ? (En- 
gagement. ) 
3 — A ring that unites? (Wedding.) 
4 — A ring prized by infants? (Teeth- 
ing.) 
5 — A ring that captivates? (Kinglet.) 
6 — A ring that soars aloft ? (Ring-dove.) 
7 — A ring that slays? (Political.) 
8 — A ring that defaces beauty? (Ring- 
worm. ) 
9 — A ring found in dining rooms ? (Nap- 
kin ring.) 
10 — A ring used in cooking? (Muffin 

ring.) 
11 — The ring W. J. Bryan would choose? 

(Silver.) 
12 — The ring President McKinley would 

choose? (Gold.) 
1 3 — -The ring most admired by society la- 
dies ? (Diamond.) 
14 — The ring loved by children ? (Ring- 
Round-Rosy. ) 
15 — A ring used by builders ? (Pulley 

ring.) 
16 — A washerwoman's favorite 

(Wring-er.) 
17 — A ring worn by ladies? (Ear-ring.) 
18 — A ring worn by some uncivilized peo- 
ple ? (Nose-ring.) 
19 — A circus director? (Ring-master.) 
20 — The head of an organization ? (Ring- 
leader.) 

RING GAME NO. II. 

The guests are seated in a circle, a twine 
string is tied together and placed in the 
hands of the persons in the circle ; on this 
string a gold ring has been slipped; one 
person stands in the center of the circle; 
the hands of the players quickly slip along 
the string from one to the other; thus the 
ring is kept going, though hidden from 
the eves of the players; the game con- 
sists in the person in the center discov- 
ering and capturing the ring; once this 
is accomplished, he takes his place in the 



ring? 



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circle of players, after choosing another to 
become the searcher for the ring. 

KING GAME NO. III. 

An upright column two and one-half 
feet high is placed in the center of the 
room; the top of the column should be 
hollowed out so that it will hold a common 
size croquet ball ; the ball is placed in this 
socket; a large wooden ring is produced, 
and the players, standing at a given dis- 
tance from the column, throw, to deter- 
mine who may be able to place the ring 
over the column without knocking the ball 
from the socket ; this will be found an in- 
teresting game for an evening in the home ; 
this game is modeled after the game of 
"William Tell and the Apple." 



A CAKE SALE. 



(jYiVT^ 8* ve the following description of 
i WrVi a ca ^ e sa ^ e wn i cn was held recent- 
ly. The principal feature of the entertain- 
ment was the cake contest — a game, with 
cake prizes This game took the place of 
the time-honored raffling, which was voted 
out of date. The game was played in 
groups of ten, who, on paying a fee of five 
cents, were given the printed list of ques- 
tions to be answered. The list was signed 
by the player and dropped into the "Post- 
office," a box provided for the occasion ; all 
lists had to be in at a certain hour; later 
in the evening the names of the prize-win- 
ners were announced, and the prize given. 

A lady's and gentleman's first prize 
were given, likewise the booby prizes. The 
prizes were cakes, beautifully decorated ; 
the boobies consisted of frosted animal 
cakes. 

Following is a list of the questions used 
in the contest : 

1 — What cake does a society woman pre- 
fer? (Reception.) 
2 — The school-girl? (Composition.) 
3 — The grocer ? ( Sugar. ) 
4 — The artist ? (Exhibition. ) 



5 — The farmer? (Harvest.) 
6 — The stingy man ? (Sponge.) 
7— The tramp? (Loaf.) 
8 — The minister? (Scripture.) 
9— The milliner ? ( Feather. ) 
10 — The gardener? (Hoe.) 
11— The "Old Maid"? (Tea.) 
12 — The dairyman? (Cream.) 
13 — The champion ? (Cup.) 
14 — The pretty girls? (Ribbon.) 
15 — The shoe-maker? (The last.) 
16— The sculptor ? (Marble.) 
17 — The small boy ? (Snow-ball.) 
18 — The gossip? (Spice.) 
19 — The democrats ? (Silver.) 
20— The republicans ? (Gold.) 
21 — The political candidate? (Election.) 
22— The society belle ? (Wedding.) 
23— The politician? (Plum.) 
24— The florist? (Seed.) 
25 — The colored boys ? (Watermelon.) 
26 — The young men? (Lady fingers.) 
27— The Sunday School boy? (Angel.) 
28 — The lover for his sweetheart? (Date.) 
29— The Board of Trade man? (Corn.) 
30— The jockey? (Horse.) 

The refreshments consisted of different 
varieties of cake, served with tea, coffee or 
chocolate. Cakes whole, or in sections, 
were for sale in pretty booths, decorated in 
fancy paper. Posters announcing special- 
ties were arranged at intervals. One 
booth contained cakes made by the young 
ladies of the society; this was much 
patronized by the young men of the gath- 
ering; another booth was devoted to chil- 
dren's cakes, containing a plentiful supply 
of cookies, dominoes, patty-pan cakes, and 
animals of all shapes and sizes; at this 
booth was also sold cakes containing prizes, 
these prizes consisting of little china toys 
baked in the cakes. Another booth was 
devoted to cook-books containing cake rec- 
ipes only; these books were made by the 
ladies of the society, each writing the rec- 
ipes, and binding them into booklet form. 

This cake sale was found to be a success, 
both from a financial and social point of 
view. 



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A COLLEGE FAIR. 



A STRAWBERRY REGALE. 

VARIATION of the time-honored 
festival, so potent in swelling the 
funds of needy churches in the season of 
berries, would be a berry regale. If the 
affair is given in a church parlor or hall, 
let the committee on decorations secure as 
many old-fashioned garden flowers, also 
a profusion of vines, if possible — the 
strawberry vine, or the pottentilla, that 
can be found in quantities in fields and 
lanes. With these the rooms should be 
profusely decorated. Garlands of vines 
running from the booths to the central 
chandelier, white curtains looped with 
vines, and a potted strawberry plant in 
fruit or flower placed in the center of each 
small table, would carry out the scheme 
of decoration. 

As will be implied by the subject, straw- 
berries in every style and form will fur- 
nish the refreshments for the occasion; 
strawberry ice-cream, strawberries and 
cream, strawberries and ice-cream, straw- 
berries and whipped cream, strawberry 
whip, fruit lemonade, strawberry vinegar, 
strawberry shortcake and strawberry 
sherbet. 

In addition to the small tables for serv- 
ing the cream, there should be large tables 
or booths devoted to the drinks, whips, 
vinegar, and also to preserves, jellies and 
marmalade for sale. A special table may 
be devoted to strawberry shortcakes of all 
sizes for home consumption, while another 
should be laden with baskets of strawber- 
ries and bunches of flowers. 

The rustic baskets for holding the flow- 
ers may be constructed from strawberry 
or early tomato boxes, by covering them 
with vines and lining them with leaves; 
twisted wire may be used as handles. The 
finest berries should be placed in these 
baskets and a fancy price fixed on them. 

Menu cards may be made by placing 
strawberry decorations on common white 
cardboard, the names of all articles for 
sale and prices being daintily written out 
in long hand. Waitresses should wear 



white dresses, caps and aprons; green 
vines may be worn as ornament for hair 
and dress. 

If a really artistic and fancy table be 
desired, this may be accomplished by using 
polished oak or mahogany tables, with cen- 
terpieces embroidered in strawberry de- 
signs; real china, hand-decorated, and 
lovely spiral crystal vases, containing a 
single flower with its foliage. 

If possible an orchestra of stringed in- 
struments should provide music for the 
occasion. 



A COLLEGE FAIR. 

COLLEGE fair may be made a 
charming affair. It is best to hold 
it in the largest room possible, the church 
parlors or chapel being most satisfactory. 
The room should be decorated in college 
colors; those of Harvard draped in one 
corner, Yale across one side, and this 
scheme continued until the greatest num- 
ber possible be represented. Under the 
drapings of each particular college should 
be placed its table or booth, made attrac- 
tive by its flags and banners. The young 
ladies having charge of the tables may be 
attired in the regulation cap or gown, or 
in a costume combining the colors of the 
college she represents. 

Only one class of goods should be offered 
for sale at each booth. 

The division may be made as best suits 
the promoters of the affair. At a fair re- 
cently given the division was made as fol- 
lows: 

Radcliffe. China. — Here all sorts of ar- 
ticles ranging from Japanese butter-plates 
to expensively decorated vases were ranged 
at prices to suit all classes of purchasers. 
Many of these articles were donated by 
firms, and the higher priced articles were 
sold on commission ; of course all articles 
remaining unsold were returned to the 
owners. 

Yale booth was devoted to pictures. 
Everything from photogravures to oil- 



A COLLEGE FAIR. 



10* 



paintings were in evidence. The pretty 
little passepartouts met the readiest sale, 
and these had the distinction of having 
been framed by a committee of young la- 
dies belonging to the society. Princeton. — 
This booth was devoted to fancy pillows. 
This proved to be the most attractive and 
remunerative booth represented; the in- 
creasing popularity of pillows of all sorts 
explains this fact. The covers were for 
sale, in quantities, and were of every de- 
scription and sort. Some were finished 
ready to put on the pillow, others were 
stamped for working, and yet others were 
made of the art denims, which require no 
extra work in the making. 

Another booth was devoted entirely to 
flowers, both cut and potted plants; an- 
other to embroidered linens, and still an- 
other to books, calendars, etc. 

A pretty feature was the refreshment 
tables, which were set in the Yale booth; 
they w T ere decorated in the Yale color, red. 
The decorations were of rich red roses and 
were most effective. 

The following college games were sold 
at five cents each, and one hour given to 
the correct solving of same ; at the close 
of that time they were placed in a box 
provided for the purpose at the game 
booth ; here they were taken in charge by 
a committee appointed for the purpose, 
and a prize awarded to the successful con- 
testant; if there was more than one suc- 
cessful contestant, lots were cast to decide 
who should receive the prize. 

COLLEGE GAME NO. I. 

1 — A title of royalty and a unit of meas- 
ure. (Princeton.) 

2 — Two great generals. (Washington 
and Lee.) 

3 — A point of the compass and a part of 
a pin. (West Point.) 

4 — A great American statesman. (Ham- 
ilton. ) 

5 — A noted Frenchman, who was a 
friend to all Americans. (La- 
fayette. ) 



G — A swift motion and a part of a river. 

(Dartmouth.) 
7 — A number of people joined together 

as one body. (Union.) 
8 — A name sometimes applied to our 

country. (Columbia.) 
9 — A prominent English general of In- 
ter-colonial times. (Amherst.) 
10 — One of the twelve apostles. (St. 

John.) 
11 — The first Baptist minister in Ameri- 
ca. (Williams.) 
12 — A body of water and a deep wood. 
(Lake Forest.) 

COLLEGE GAME NO. II. 

1 — From what college did the poet Long- 
fellow graduate ? (Bowdoin.) 

2 — What college became a military hos- 
pital during the Revolutionary 
war? (Columbia.) 

3 — In what college did the Continental 
Congress meet in 1783 ? (Prince- 
ton.) 

4 — In the chapel of what college was 
Gen. Lee buried ? (Washington 
and Lee.) 

5— Name the first non-sectarian college 
of the U.S. (Union.) 

6 — Name the first college in the U. S. 
to open its doors to the colored 
race. (Oberlin.) 

7 — Name the oldest college of New Jer- 
sey. (Rutgers.) 

8 — Name the first college founded in the 
U. S. (Harvard). 

9 — Name a college that has three times 
been destroyed by fire. (William 
and Mary.) 
10 — What institution numbers among its 
graduates the famous Admirals 
Dewey and Wm. T. Sampson? 
(U. S. Naval Academv, Annapolis, 
Md.) 
11 — What college fronts the famous Mid- 
way Plaisance, Chicago, 111. ? 
(Chicago University.) 
12 — What college was founded by ten 
ministers, each of whom ffave a 
gift of books? (Yale.) 



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PROGRAMME FOR A MISSIONARY MEETING. 



13 — What college is located on the shores 
of Lake Michigan ? (Northwestern 
University.) 

14 — What California college was founded 
in honor of the deceased son of a 
IT. S. Senator \ (Leland Stanford 
Jr. University.) 

15 — What noted University has a hospital 
in connection with it? (Johns 
Hopkins. ) 

16 — Name the oldest college of Virginia. 
(Hampden Sidney.) 

17 — What college has the honor of having 
founded the first Foreign Mission- 
ary society of America? (Wil- 
liams.) 

18 — What college grounds are enclosed by 
massive stone walls ? (Girard.) 

19 — What college contains a famous Aud- 
ubon collection of birds? (Am- 
herst.) 

20 — What college adopted for its motto 
the words, "For Christ and the 
Church?" (Harvard.) 



PROGRAMME FOR A MISSIONARY 
MEETING. 

{For the Children.) 

1 — Song — "Volunteers For Jesus." 

2 — Scriptural Reading. 

3 — Missionary Stories of Children of 

Other Lands. 
4— Song— "Here Am I, O Lord Send 

Me." 
5 — Recitations, 

"The Touch of Jesus"— Thomp- 
son. 

"I Shall Know" — Morrison. 
G— Song— "Send The Light." 
7 — Missionary Heroes. 
8 — A Missionary Exercise, by a class. 
9— Song— "Tell It Again." 
10 — Recitations, 

"A Picture of Sorrow" — Sorenson. 

"Only a Little Baby Girl"— Simp- 
son. 



11 — Song — "Bringing In The Sheaves." 
12— Talk by the Pastor. 
13 — Closing Song. 

MISSIONARY EXERCISE. 

First Pupil: — 
"They passed it along from pew to pew, 
And gathered the coins, now fast, now 

few, 
That rattled upon it; and every time 
Some eager fingers would drop a dime 
On the silver plate with a silver sound, 
A boy who sat in the aisle looked round 
With a wistful face : "Oh, if only he 
Had a dime to offer, how glad he'd be! 
He fumbled his pockets, but did not dare 
To hope he should find a penny there ; 
And much as he searched when all was 

done, 
He, hadn't discovered a single one." 
Second Pupil : — 
"He listened with wide-set, earnest eyes 
As the minister in a plaintive wise, 
Had spoken of children all abroad 
The world, who had never heard of God. 
Poor, pitiful pagans who didn't know, 
When they came to die, where their souls 

would go; 
And who shrieked with fear, when their 

mothers made 
Them kneel to an idol god, afraid 
He might eat them up — so fierce and 

wild, 
And horrid he seemed, to the frightened 

child. 
'How different' murmured the boy, while 

his 
Lips trembled, 'How different Jesus 

Is!'" 
Third Pupil : — 
"And the more the minister talked, the 

more 
The boy's heart ached to the inner core; 
And the nearer to him the silver plate 
Kept coming, the harder seemed his fate 
That he hadn't a penny to give 
That the Heathen might hear of Christ. 
But all at once, as the silver sound 
Just tinkled beside him, the boy looked 

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109 



And they offered the piled up plate to 

him 
And he blushed and his eyes began to 

swim." 
Fourth Pupil : — 
"Then bravely turning as if he knew 
There was nothing better that he could 

do, 
lie spoke in a voice that held a tear : 
'Put the plate on the bench beside me 

here.' 
And the plate was placed, for they 

thought he meant 
To empty his pockets of every cent. 
But he stood right up and softly put 
Right square in the midst of the plate 

his foot, 
And said with a sob controlled before, 
I will give myself — I have nothing 

more." 



-Song- 



CHRISTMAS EXERCISE. 

(For Sunday-school or Juniors.) 
-Song — "Celebrate the Morn." 
-Recitation, 

"The Inn-Keeper" — Hubley. 
Christ is Born." 
Story of Christ's Birth — Class exer- 
cise. 
~ — Song — "Lo In a Manger, Long Ago." 
(I — Recitations, 

"A Christmas Hymn." — Donette. 
"An After Christmas Visit." — 

Anon. 
"The Night Before Christmas."— 
Moore. 
7 — Song — "Hail the New Born King." 
8 — Christmas Thoughts — School. 
9— Song— "Peace on Earth, Good Will 
to Men." 
10 — "An Answered Question" — Class ex- 
ercise. 
11— Song— "Tell It Out." 
1 2 — Recitations, 

"Christmas Music." — Brainbridge. 
"Little Town of Bethlehem."— 

Brooks. 
"A Christmas Carol." — Adelaide 
Proctor. 



13 — Closing Song— "Christmas Carol." — 
Felecia Remans. 

STORY OF BIRTH OF CHRIST CLASS. 

1 — Leader: — "To what prophet did God 
show, in a vision, a Savior to 
come ?" 
Child: — "To the prophet Isaiah." 

2 — Leader: — "How long before Christ 
did the prophet Isaiah live?" 
Child : — "Seven hundred years." 

3 — Leader: — "What did Isaiah say of 
the Savior child ?" 
Child : — "For unto us a child is born, 
unto us a Son is given; and the 
government shall be upon His 
shoulder; and His name shall be 
called Wonderful, Counselor, the 
mighty God, the everlasting 
Father, and the Prince of Peace." 

4= — Leader: — "Why did the angel tell 
His mother to call him Jesus ?" 
Child: — "Thou shalt call His name 
Jesus, for He shall save His people 
from their sins." 

5 — Leader: — "Who told the shepherds 
that Jesus was born ?" 
Child: — "The angel told the shep- 
herds that Jesus was born, and that 
they might see Him if they went to 
Bethlehem." 

6 — Leader: — "What did they hear from 
heaven ?" 
Child: — "And suddenly there was 
with the angel a multitude of 
heavenly host praising God and 
saying, Glory to God in the highest, 
and on earth peace, good will 
towards men." 

7 — Leader: — "What did the shepherds 
say to one another ?" 
Child: — "They said they would go 
and see this little child ; so they 
left their sheep and went to Beth- 
lehem." 

8 — Leader: — "Did they find Jesus in a 
beautiful house ?" 
Child: — "They found Him in a low- 
ly manger." 



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TEMPERANCE EXERCISE. 



9 — Leader: — "What other persons be- 
sides the shepherds came to see 
Jesus V 
Child: — "Three wise men who knew 
a great deal about stars. These 
men lived in Persia." 

10 — Leader: — : "What did they see one 
night ?" 
Child : — "They saw a new star which 
was much brighter than the others. 
God had sent it for the wise men to 
see, so they might know that Jesus 
was born." 

11 — Leader: — "Did the wise men live 
near Bethlehem ?" 
Child:— "The wise men lived a long 
distance away from Bethlehem, 
they did not even know where to 
find the city, but God made the 
bright star move before them and 
show them the way." 

12 — Leader: — "What did they do when 
they arrived at Bethlehem and saw 
the holy child Jesus ?" 
Child: — "They knelt down before 
Him, and worshiped Him and gave 
Him beautiful gifts." 

13 — Leader: — "What wonderful Christ- 
mas present did God give to the 
children of men ?" 
Child : — "For God so loved the world 
that He gave His only begotten 
Son that whosoever believeth on 
Him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life." 

A QUESTION ANSWERED. 

Class Exercise No. II. 
Teacher : — 
"Say what is the meaning of Christmas- 
tide, 
The day that is dearer than all beside? 
Say, what is its message, what does it tell, 
That childhood and age should love it so 
well ?" 
First Child:— 
"It meancth that once in the long ago 
A Baby was born in the manger low, 
While seraphim sang of its wondrous 
birth 



And sages came from the end of the 
earth." 
Second Child: — 
"It tells of the Father whose, kindness 
gave 
His Only Begotten our souls to save ; 
It tells of the Savior who freely came 
To a life of love and a death of shame." 
Third Child:— 
"Glad tidings from Heaven to all it tells, 
Ring out the sweet message ye Christmas 

Bells; 
King 'Peace upon Earth, Good will to 

Men' 
Till Heaven shall echo it back again." 
Fourth Child: — 
"It tells to the proud how the Lord so high 
Came down in a stable stall to lie ; 
It tells to the poor that the humblest 

home 
Is not too low for the Lord to come." 
Fifth Child:— 
"It means that Christ in the heart is born 
As truly as once on the Christmas morn ; 
And all who will welcome Him to abide 
Will find that each day is a Christmas 
tide." 
Sixth Child: — 
"It ringeth a message more loud and clear, 
Proclaiming the glad Millennial Year; 
For Bethlehem's Star has risen once 

more, 
And the world's long night is almost 
o'er." 
All Children in Concert: — 
"Ring louder, ye Bells of the Christmas- 
tide, 
Ye heralds re-echo it far and wide ; 
Tell out to the nations again and again, 
The Gospel of Peace, Good Will to Men." 
(The above exercise is arranged from 
a poem by A. B. Simpson.) 



TEMPERANCE EXERCISE. 

(For the S. S. or Juniors.) 

1— Song— "God Will Help You to 

Stand." 
2 — Scriptural Reading — Proverbs 23. 



TEMPERANCE EXERCISE. 



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3— Song— "Thou Art Drifting." 

4— Sketch of Life of Frances E. Wil- 

lard. 
5— Song— "Hear Our Pleading." 
6 — Recitations, 

"The Toper's Apology." — Morris. 

"The Vagabonds." — Trowbridge. 

"The Drunkard's Wife."— Coates. 

7 — Song — "Your Mother Is Loving You 

Yet." 
8— Paper— "The White Ribbon Army." 
9 — Scriptural Temperance Exercise (a 
class). 
10— Song— "The Stream of Life." 
1 1 — Paper — "Loyal Temperance Legion." 
12 — Temperance Thoughts by School. 
13 — Address by local temperance worker, 

or Pastor. 
14 — Closing Song — "Jesus is Able to 
Save." 

SKETCH OF FRANCES E. WILLARD. 

Prances E. Willard was born Septem- 
ber 28, 1839, in the state of New York; 
while yet a small child she removed with 
her parents to the wide prairies of Wis- 
consin. When she grew older she says 
she used to look out over the wide prairies 
and wonder if she would ever see the great 
world beyond. Her father and mother 
were well educated, and their children did 
not lose anything by being far away from 
good schools. Their mother gave them 
daily instruction in their studies, as well as 
teaching the many lessons of goodness 
and mercy which were helpful to them in 
after years ; she was full of sympathy for 
their loneliness and invented many amuse- 
ments for them. Their father was espe- 
cially strict in the observance of the Sab- 
bath day, forbidding all games and 
studies, and would not even allow them to 
look into the dictionary for the meaning of 
a word. The story is told of how little 
Prances had received a new slate late one 
Saturday evening, and of course was very 
anxious to use it on Sunday. At last she 
approached her mother and whispered, 
"May I have my new slate, if I will 
promise not to draw anything but meeting 



houses ?" She received the mother's con- 
sent, and thus passed a happy day. 

As Frances grew older she became pas- 
sionately fond of out-door life ; she did not 
like house-work, her sister was fond of it, 
and so they divided the labor, each accord- 
ing to her taste. Of her life at this time 
Miss Willard says: "There was never a 
busier girl than I, and I did what was 
mostly useful. I knew all the carpenter's 
tools and handled them, made carts and 
sleds, cross guns and whip-handles." 

At sixteen years of age Frances was sent 
to college, she graduated from North- 
western at nineteen, and began her 
chosen profession, that of teaching, im- 
mediately after. She taught in various 
western towns, was principal of the Gene- 
see Wesley an Seminary, Lima, N. Y., in 
1867 ; was connected with the Evanston 
College for women and the Northwestern 
University, Chicago, 111., from 1871 to 
1879. In 1879 she. became president of 
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union 
and soon became famous the world over 
for her temperance work; in 1883 she 
founded the World's Christian Temper- 
ance Union. By her voice and pen she 
worked all her life' for the deliverance of 
the alcoholic slaves. Her ambition in life 
was to make happy homes for all children ; 
to this end was established her Loyal 
Temperance Legion for children, who thus 
pledged themselves against drinking, 
smoking and swearing. This society num- 
bered thousands of children in its ranks. 
They adopted as a motto : "Tremble, King 
Alcohol, We Shall Soon Grow Up." 

For the "White Ribbon Army," a so- 
ciety for women, she chose the motto : "For 
God and Home and Native Land We 
Wage Our Peaceful War." 

Miss Willard's literary works consist 
of several volumes; one, "Glimpses of 
Fifty Years," is an interesting history of 
her own home life on the farm. "Woman 
and Temperance" is devoted to her favor- 
ite life work. "Nineteen Beautiful 
Years" is the sweet story of her sister's 
life. "How To Win" is full of helpful 



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A TRIO SOCIAL. 



hints to girls and boys. Miss Willard's 
death occurred February, 1898. 

SCRIPTURAL TEMPERANCE EXERCISE. 

(For a Class.) 

First Child: — 

In Proverbs xxiii : 21 we read: "For 
the drunkard and the glutton shall come to 
poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a 
man with rags." 

Second Child: — 

I Cor. vi :10 declares that "No drunkard 
shall inherit the kingdom of God." 

Third Child:— 

Listen to the reading of Prov. xxiii : 
31 : "Look not thou upon the wine, when it 
is red, when it giveth color to the cup, 
when it moveth itself aright. At the last it 
biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an 
adder." 

Fourth Child: — 

In Prov. xxii :1 we are admonished that 
"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is rag- 
ing; and whosoever is deceived thereby 
is not wise." 

Fifth Child:— 

Prov. xxiii : 29, 30 : "Who hath woe ? 
who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions ? 
who hath babbling? who hath wounds 
without cause? who hath redness of the 
eyes ? They that tarry at the wine ; they 
that go to seek mixed wine." 

Sixth Child: — 

Listen to the reading of Hab. ii:15: 
"Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor 
drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and 
makest him drunken also, that thou mayest 
look on their nakedness." 

Seventh Child: — 

Numbers vi:3: "He shall separate 
himself from wine and strong drink; he 
shall drink no vinegar of wine, nor liquor 
of grapes." 



A TRIO SOCIAL. 

AVE a reception committee of three, 
each dressed in a different color; 
care should be. taken that the colors har- 
monize. Place chairs in groups of three, 
and have a trio of three-minute conversa- 
tions; this may be arranged by passing 
triangular-shaped cards, along each edge 
of which is written a topic of current or 
general interest, and in each corner a num- 
ber. The holder of the card is to notice 
the number at the left of the written topic 
announced by the leader to be the subject 
of the first conversation. Two other per- 
sons have the same number, and the three 
get together and converse on the subject. 
At the end of three minutes the next topic 
is taken in the same manner, then the 
third, changing groups by the card num- 
bers so as to bring a different trio to- 
gether each time. 

A programme may be rendered consist- 
ing of three readings or recitations, alter- 
nating with three musical selections, vocal 
or instrumental, one of which may itself 
be a trio. The latter part of the evening 
may be devoted to games ; these games 
should be three in number and may in- 
clude one written game, one guessing or 
memory contest, and one test of skill in 
throwing or aiming at a mark. 

Near the close of the evening a march 
may be played, and the company arranged 
in threes, by the means of sliced words or 
dissected pictures, may march, three 
abreast, into the dining-room where re- 
freshments are served. These, another 
trio, may consist of fruit, cake and lemon- 
ade. The cake should be of three layers, 
and the fruit may be of three varieties, 
mixed. Sliced bananas, oranges cut into 
small pieces, and strawberries combine 
well, served with sugar in small dishes. 
The refreshments may be served by three 
maidens, dressed in Japanese costume to 
represent the famous "Three Little Maids 
from School," of Mikado fame. 

After the serving of refreshments the 
company returns to the parlor and almost 







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A PENNY SOCIAL. 



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immediately there appears a trumpeter 
who announces with much flourish that in 
the room above are Three Fates, spinning 
the threads of the lives of the company, 
and that all are. invited to ascend and 
visit their workshop, where will be made 
known what the future has in store for 
each. Thereupon the company, in a pro- 
cession of threes, pass upstairs to the 
room where their fate awaits. This door 
is unlocked by tlie trumpeter and all pass 
within. Entering they see at the end of 
the room, framed in draperies and lighted 
from Roman lamps, a startling and vivid 
tableau, which anyone who is familiar 
w T ith Michael Angelo's picture would im- 
mediately recognize as his conception of 
the Three Fates. The ladies representing 
the Fates should be chosen for unusual 
height, slender figure, and strongly marked 
features. A skillful use of charcoal and 
powder will make them appear to be at 
least one-hundred' years old. The cos- 
tumes should consist of sheets, draped ef- 
fectively in large, classic folds ; there 
should be knotted turbans arranged about 
the head. Clotho sits by a spinning 
wheel; Lachesis holds the thread with 
sadly imploring eyes turned upon Atropos, 
in whose hands are the shears. An owl 
should be perched in the foreground. 
Above all appears the following inscrip- 



tion 



"Spin, spin, Clotho spin, 

Lachesis twist, and Atropos sever; 
Sorrow is strong, and so is sin, 
But only God endures forever." 



A powerful impression is made by the 
picture. The spectators move on, as di- 
rected, to an opposite door, where each 
receives from a child's hand a card bear- 

t ing a bit of prophecy or personal char- 
acterization. One child gives cards to 
ladies, another to gentlemen. Returning 

1 to the rooms below the guests compare and 
discuss the fates assigned them. These 
fates may be compiled from quotations, 
witty and wise; the more piquant and 
personal the better. 



A PENNY SOCIAL. 



tROVIDE as many pennies as there 
are guests, as each guest enters the 
room he is handed a slip of paper con- 
taining a list of articles to be found on 
the faces of a penny, together with the 
penny and a pencil. An hour and a half 
is given to complete the lists, after which 
they are collected and redistributed, when 
the hostess reads a correct list, while the. 
guests check the lists, thus making known 
the winner of the contest, who receives a 
reward in the shape of a box of foreign 
coins, while the one who has answered 
the least number of the list receives a 
child's savings bank. 

1 — A weapon. (An arrow.) 

2 — What our f oref athjers fought to gain ? 

(Liberty.) 
3 — Name of a flower? (Tulip — two 

lips.) 
4 — Name of an animal? (Hare — 

hair.) 
5 — Name of a fruit? (Date.) 
6 — A rowing term? (Feather.) 
7 — Our pride and glory? (America.) 
8 — Name for an ocean? (Sea — C.) 
9 — Place of worship ? ( Temple. ) 
10 — A messenger? (One sent — Cent.) 
11— A beverage? (Tea— T.) 
12— Part of a vegetable? (Ear.) 
13— A gallant? (Beau— bow.) 
14 — A protection? (Shield.) 
15 — A term of marriage? (United State.) 
16 — An ancient honor? (Wreath.) 
17— Part of a hill? (Brow.) 
18 — An occupation? (Milling.) 
19 — Writings from the absent? (Letters.) 
20 — A native inhabitant ? (Indian.) 

At the close of this contest pass the fol- 
lowing programme to each guest, at the 
same time, requesting them to be seated 
preparatory to enjoying the feast: 

MENU PEOGEAMME. 

Consomme a* la galop. 

Pressed Tongue. Saratoga Chips. 

Roast Turkey. 



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SOME fALKS ON DECORATING. 



Spanish Sauce. 
Game. 

Nuts. 
Scotch Marmalade. 

First Course — "Consomme a la galop," 
a lively piano selection. 

Second Course — "Pressed Tongue," the 
reading of choice selections from re- 
nowned authors, or short extracts from 
current literature. 

"Roast Turkey," a paper or debate on 
the affairs of the Turkish empire. 

"Spanish Sauce," short pithy talks on 
the question of the Spanish in our new 
possessions. 

"Game" — Any game may here be in- 
troduced. 

"Nuts" are written quotations, conun- 
drums, etc., written on slips of paper and 
distributed among the guests, who are at 
liberty to call on any member of the party 
to solve or answer same. 



SOME TALKS ON DECORATING. 

|§J1 OLOR not only charms the eye but 
\j|/ seems to temper the atmosphere as 
well. A luncheon or a dinner table taste- 
fully decorated in green and white will 
have somewhat the effect of a cooling 
breeze, even though the thermometer be 
in the nineties. Nature often graciously 
lends her coloring to aid us in carrying 
out our schemes of decoration, but a little 
artificial touch as an extra finish will sel- 
dom come amiss. 

One of the best-known of flavoring ex- 
tract makers has put upon the market an 
admirable article in the way of coloring 
paste, which requires only to be mixed 
with warm water to be ready for use. 

The ribbons used to decorate tea and 
luncheon tables may now be bought ready- 
tied for adjustment. 

Red and yellow color-schemes are par- 
ticularly attractive in the winter season. 
How quickly the cold of night is dispelled 
on entering a room where the dinner- 
table is decorated with red flowers, can- 



dles or ribbons. The sunshine luncheon, 
too, may be inspiring even if the day be 
dull and cheerless. Yellow, however, is 
only adapted to daylight affairs, as it is 
nearly white by artificial light. Green 
and whitie should be extensively used as 
summer decoraters, as they have a cooling 
effect. 

If pink decorations are desired nothing 
is prettier than the arrangement of carna- 
tions and ferns; roses also are desirable, 
but often not obtainable. 

For the novelty of a rainbow luncheon 
the blossoms of the sweet-pea are used, 
being so rich in their varied colorings. 
Fourth of July and other holiday enter- 
tainments may be easily arranged by a lit- 
tle thought and planning. Blue is not a 
favored color for eatables, so ribbon or 
flowers of this color must be. used to carry 
out this part of the color scheme, and red 
and white foods may be multiplied at 
pleasure. For a Fourth of July enter- 
tainment it is a pretty idea to serve the 
ice creams surmounted by a tiny silk flag. 
These may be purchased or made at home 
from narrow ribbon of the desired colors; 
they should be mounted on wooden tooth- 
picks or long pins. 

When small tables are used each may 
be done in a different color, and each 
course served be of a different hue. 

In decorating consider the affect of 
your table in the room as well as by itself. 
If your dining-room walls make an im- 
possible combination with a certain color 
do not attempt to use it, but choose an- 
other. It is just as well if you have a 
gown that combines with or contrasts 
prettily with the decorations to wear that 
one, instead of one that screams at its 
surroundings. There is far more in giv- 
ing artistic entertainments on a small 
scale than the question, "What shall we 
eat and drink ?" 

Well selected garden flowers, or, above 
all, wild flowers, give a wide scope for 
original manipulation and repay a hun- 
dredfold the time spent upon them. They 
lend themselves so easily to artistic ef- 



AN INDIA SOCIAL. 



fccts, and then one can be so lavish with 
them. 

Ivemember that it gives an added cor- 
diality if the hostess herself opens the door 
to her guests. Kemember always that the 
social part of the entertainment is higher 
than the gastronomic — people are not all 
stomach. 



A QUEER TEA-PARTY. 

fERE is a tea party in which tea and 
cake play but a secondary part, and 
well-known gossip no part at all. This 
tea party is for the edification of mind 
rather than bodily pleasure. 

To prepare for this queer tea select a 
list of words whose initial letter is T, the 
remainder of the letters are left a blank 
and must be determined by the definition 
of the word. These words are printed on 
cardboard and space allowed for writing 
the answers. 

1 — T with four letters forming to in- 
struct ? (Teach.) 

2 — T with 3 letters forming a sort of 
wood? (Teak.) 

3 — T with 3 letters forming a bird ? 
(Teal.) 

-1 — T with 3 letters forming a rent? 
(Tear.) 

5 — T with 4 letters forming to vex? 
(Tease.) 

— T with 4 letters forming masticators? 
(Teeth.) 

7 — T and 3 letters forming a row or 
rank? (Tier.) 

8 — T and 2 letters forming a favorite 
game for children? (Tag.) 

9 — T and 3 letters forming a nice per- 
ception ? (Tact.) 
10 — T and 4 letters forming a sweetmeat ? 

(Taffy.) 
1.1 — T and 5 letters forming skill ? (Tal- 
ent.) 
12 — T and 4 letters forming a domestic 

animal? (Tabby.) 
13 — T and 2 letters forming a portion of 
the body? (Toe.) 



14 — T and 3 letters forming an append- 
age ? (Tail.) 

15 — T and 3 letters forming an interest- 
ing story? (Tale.) 

16 — T and 3 letters forming a large basin \ 
(Tank.) 

17 — T and 4 letters forming the act of 
walking? (Tread.) 

IS — T and 5 letters forming an article 
used by seamstresses? (Thread.) 

19 — T and 4 letters forming veracity? 
(Truth.) 

20 — T and 4 letters forming an article of 
household furniture? (Table.) 

21 — T and 3 letters forming character of 
sound? (Tone.) 

22 — T and 5 letters forming to attack? 
(Tackle.) 

23 — T and 4 letters forming a claw? 
(Talon.) 

24 — T and 4 letters forming a wild ani- 
mal? (Tiger.) 
■T and 2 letters forming a utensil 



ho- 



used by washerwomen? (Tub.) 



AN INDIA SOCIAL. 

Tf^EVOTE the first half hour to intro- 
12# ductions, conversation and examina- 
tion of curios and photographs of India. 
Introduce, under a Hindoo name, a mem- 
ber of the society dressed to represent a 
high-caste Hindoo lady. Her conversa- 
tion, with its assumed foreign accent and 
broken English, should carry out the il- 
lusion. Each member of the missionary 
committee may read some letter or extract 
of interest from the field of mission work 
in India. One or two musical selections, 
vocal or instrumental, may be inserted to 
add variety. Have a map-drawing con- 
test, each guest being required to draw 
from memory a map of India. The most 
successful being presented with some pret- 
ty souvenir in the form of some India 
curio, while the least successful is given 
an ordinary India-rubber eraser. 

Serve rice, with curry sauce, and tea as 
refreshments. Flowers may be used in 



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A BOX BAZAAR. 



decorations, and tropical plants of tropical 
appearance are especially suitable. At a 
social of this kind an auction sale of pretty 
oriental trifles would be an attractive fea- 
ture. 



ILLUSTRATED STEREOPTICON LEC- 
TURES. 

VERY church or young people's so- 
ciety should number among its pos- 
sessions a good stereopticon ; it will pay 
for itself many times over and prove a 
never-ending source of pleasure, and profit. 
Some societies have purchased these ma- 
chines and after giving lectures in their 
own church and town have gone to neigh- 
boring villages and thus secured funds to 
purchase new views, thus preserving an 
interest in the entertainments. 

By courtesy of Mr. J. Ritchie Patter- 
son, the successful and popular teacher of 
the Epworth Bible Class of the Western 
Avenue M. E. Church of Chicago, 111,, 
we print in full the programme of an Illus- 
trated Stereopticon Lecture given in the 
class-room of said church. 

The invitations were in booklet shape, 
printed on water-color paper, and were 
very neat and attractive. 

PROGRAMME. 

You are invited 

to the two following events 

of the 

Epworth Bible Class 

of the 

Western Avenue M. E. Church 

Sunday, December 31st, at 2:30 P. M. 

An Illustrated Stereopticon Lecture, 

Monday Evening, January 1, 1900, 

7:45 P. M., 

"The New Year's Social." 

The second page bore the following 
statement : 

On Sunday afternoon an Illustrated 
Stereopticon Lecture, "The Work of The 
Salvation Army," will be given by Maj. 



A. M. Damon, of the Salvation Army. 
In the darkened class-room sixty views 
will be thrown upon the screen, many ot 
them beautifully colored, while Maj. 
Damon describes the scenes of sin and 
sorrow which were ameliorated by the 
uplifting hands of the army lassies and 
salvation soldiers. Salvation songs will 
be sung. Among the many pictures are: 

How the Army was Started. 

The Army Persecuted. 

G. S. Booth and Other Leaders. 

Salvage Shelters. 

Refuge Homes for Women. 

Lodging Houses. 

Massive Salvation Structures. 

Farms for the Worthy Poor. 

Slum Work. 

Touching Stories. 

Power of the Gospel. 

Heroes who are Daily and Nightly 
"Throwing Out the Life Line." 



A BOX BAZAAR. 



I HE present fad for shirtwaist, skirt, 
shoe and many other kinds of boxes, 
may be made the means of making a prof- 
itable affair of a box bazaar. These boxes 
are now made in fancy shapes, all sizes 
covered with strong denim, cretons, bur- 
laps, etc., and when neatly executed are 
quite ornamental and very useful. This 
work may be accomplished by clever hands 
and sold at a moderate figure would be a 
very profitable affair, as the boxtes offered 
for sale in the large stores are very ex- 
pensive. 

The first object will be to obtain suit- 
able boxes ; very desirable ones for shirt- 
waists and shoes may be obtained from 
hardware and shoe dealers ; the lids must 
be secured as well as the body of the box. 
In preparing to give this sort of an enter- 
tainment in a church each member might 
be asked to contribute one box, or the lum- 
ber from which the box may be fashioned. 
This will save a pretty penny in the ex- 
penses of the occasion. The materials for 



ITALIAN SOCIAL. 



IV 



decorating the boxes should be purchased 
in large quantities at city prices, thus sav- 
ing in this manner also. 

In addition to the bazaar a box supper 
might be provided, each lady providing 
food for two persons, which is placed in a 
prettily-decorated box in the form of an 
"old oaken bucket." This may be accom- 
plished by covering the boxes with green 
crepe paper. A large, hogshead covered 
with moss and vines should be made to 
simulate a well; in this should be placed 
all the lunch-boxes together with a small 
boy. A windlass should be provided, by 
which the baskets may be drawn from the. 
well, being fastened to the rope by the 
secreted "small boy." 

In addition to the food each basket con- 
tains the following "Box Game," together 
with pencil for the solving. A contest 
then begins, in which each couple tries to 
win. 

BOX GAME. 

1 — A transportation box? (Box car.) 
2 — An impudent young box? (Sauce 

box.) 
3 — A growing box? (Box elder.) 
4 — A church-going box? (Contribution 

box.) 
5 — An athletic box? (Box-er.) 
6 — A crawling box? (Box-turtle.) 
7 — An attractive, box for ladies ? (Bon- 
net box.) 
8— A "bad habit" box? (Snuff box.) 
9 — A box welcomed by children ? (Con- 
fectionery box. ) 
10 — An infant box? (Rattle-box.) 
11 — A box that's worn? (Box coat.) 
12 — A swimming box? (Box-fish.) 
13 — A physician's box? (Pill-box.) 
14 — A musician's box? (Music-box.) 
1 5 — A playgoer's box ? ( Theater-box. ) 



AN ANTIQUE SALE. 

fN every household there are to be 
found articles of which the. owner is 
tired or which the receding tide of fortune 



has left stranded. Things too good to 
give away indiscriminately, yet not good 
enough to give at first hand, for these we 
have at last found a mission. A call is put 
in local papers, and all persons interested 
in the charity are invited to contribute 
old furniture, pictures, books, bric-a-brac, 
jewelry, china, silver, toys, and even 
clothes. All articles should be sent two or 
three days ahead of when the sale is to 
be held; they are then sorted, ticketed 
plainly with the price and arranged in an 
attractive manner. 

If access may be gained to the attics of 
housekeepers whose sway has extended 
over many years unthought-of treasures 
may be extracted. The various articles 
should be displayed by classes ; all should 
be attractively arranged. The clothes will 
make the most attractive appearance hung 
on lines. The. jewelry should be placed in 
a booth, the table of which should be cov- 
ered with black velveteen. Another booth 
should be provided for the children's toys, 
which, being so cheap, will be in great 
demand. 

The chief merit of one of these sales is 
that the only labor is the collecting and 
selling, and the days of toil that are usu- 
ally spent in sewing and embroidering are 
done away with. 



AN ITALIAN SOCIAL. 

OR decorations combine the national 
J$§ colors of Italy with those of Ameri- 
ca ; if possible a stereopticon should be 
provided with views of Italian scenery, 
statuary and photographs, especially of 
Rome. The. lecturer having this part of 
the entertainment in hand should be well 
read, if not well "traveled." 

Music should be provided by peasants, 
dressed in native costume ; stringed instru- 
ments should be used. A group of little 
wandering musicians would be an attract- 
ive feature. In representing these classes 
only dark-haired people should be chosen ; 
if possible secure the services of a "real 



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A COLONIAL FETE. 



for-sure" street pianist and his instru- 
ment, or, better still, a hand-organ and 
the historic monkey. Scenes from "Aunt 
Jo's Scrap Bag" by Louisa M. Alcott, and 
from the books of Horatio Alger may be 
enacted on a stage, erected for the occasion. 
Selections may also be read from these 
books. 

One side of the room may be given to 
a regular street fruit stand superintended 
by a member of the society, dressed as an 
Italian street vender. The refreshments 
should consist of fruits, macaroni, and 
nuts. 



A COLONIAL FETE. 

I HE decorations should be as colonial 
as possible; spinning wheels, 
straight high-backed chairs and settees, 
samplers hung on walls, in fact everything 
that can be collected should be in use. All 
participants should be in colonial attire, 
in which powdered hair and kerchiefs play 
an important part. 

A stage should be erected on which 
should be enacted tableaux selected from 
scenes in colonial life, as "John Alden 
and Priscilla Mullens," scenes from 
"Evangeline," and scenes from the daily 
lives of the colonists contrasting the mid- 
dle colonies with those of the southern. 
In addition to the tableaux a short pro- 
gramme may be arranged in which recita- 
tions, readings and stories relating to 
colonial life have a prominent part. Mu- 
sic should be interspersed. 

The refreshment tables should be decor- 
ated with old-fashioned garden flowers as 
the hollyhock or spiced pink. Old style 
dishes should be used and the waiters 
should wear old-time costumes. The 
menu should be composed of baked beans, 
brown bread, old-time preserves, sponge 
cake and the all-important tea. 

At the last part of the evening the fol- 
lowing colonial game may be introduced, 
written on cards with blank space re- 
serve*] for the answers. This will prove a 



test for the memories of those long out of 
school and abundant time should be al- 
lowed for the solving of same. A pretty 
gift in the guise, of some antique fancy 
article should be provided for the most 
successful contestant. 

GAME. 

1 — What colony was founded as a refuge 

for the poor? (Georgia.) 
2 — What colony was founded by the 
Catholics as a refuge ? (Mary- 
land. ) 
3 — What colony was founded by the 

Quakers? (Pennsylvania.) 
4 — What colony was the home of the 
famous pirate Capt. Kidd? (New 
York.) 
5 — What colony contained the famous 
"Patroons of the Manor?" (New 
York.) 
6 — What colony was founded by Roger 

Williams ? (Rhode Island. ) 
7 — What colony contained the famous 

Charter Oak ? ( Connecticut. ) 
8 — What colony was scourged by the 
"Witchcraft Craze?" (Massachu- 
setts. ) 
9 — Erom what colony was Anne Hutch- 
inson banished ? (Massachusetts.) 
10 — What colony was founded by the 

Pilgrims? (Massachusetts.) 
11 — Of what colony was John Smith cap- 
tain ? (Virginia.) 
12 — To what colony did the Mayflower 

belong ? ( Massachusetts. ) 

13 — What colony was founded by the first 

Baptist preacher in America \ 

(Rhode Island.) 

14 — What colony contained the famous 

"Treaty Elm?" (Pennsylvania.) 

15 — What colony was called the "Home 

of the Free?" (Maryland.) 
1G — What was the first college founded 

in the colonies? (Harvard.) 
17 — What colony contained the first print- 
ing press % (Massachusetts.) 



AN OLD-TIME SCHOOL EXHIBITION. 



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18 — What colony contained the first stage 
route % ( Massachusetts. ) 

19 — What colony introduced the Christ- 
mas festivities? (New York.) 

20 — What colony introduced Thanksgiv- 
ing ? (Massachusetts. ) 



AN OLD-TIME SCHOOL EXHIBITION. 

fHE interest in old-time manners and 
customs has become so universal that 
any representation of the same will be 
welcomed most cordially by the majority 
of the people. Recognizing this fact, 
nothing would be more entertaining and 
appropriate as a church entertainment 
than a representation of an old-time school 
exhibition. In the days of our fathers 
this was thought to be the only fitting 
ceremony for the close of a term of school, 
when each child of the "deestrict" had an 
opportunity to display his oratorical pow- 
ers, much to the delight of his elders. 

The first thing to be done is to secure 
the aid of such persons as have good voices 
for declaiming, and w T ho have a natural 
love of the. art of personation. The teach- 
er may be of either sex but must be dressed 
in the costume of long ago, and carry the 
well-remembered "ruler" of other days. 
The "good deestrict fathers" or school 
committee should have seats of honor on 
the platform, alongside of the teacher. 
The scholars should be dressed in old- 
school style ; these costumes may be copied 
from the. fashion magazines of the period 
represented, also from old-time story 
books. Nothing can afford greater merri- 
ment than the sight of the young people 
and staid elderly people of the church 
dressed in the comical costume of the 
school children of long ago ; this alone 
would create an evening of merriment 
within itself. 

Each person having a part in the exer- 
cises should be given some quaint old 
baptismal name, with suitable, surname, 
which is called by the teacher, together 



with the title of the selection to be ren- 
dered. Going back to old colonial days 
may be found such names as Prudence j 
Patience, Ophelia, Perseverance, Deliv- 
erance, Hope, Joy, Ruth, Humility, 
Truth, Priscilla, Remembrance, Delight, 
Honor, Charity, Angelica, Hepzibah, and 
Penelope, while for the men are Peleg, 
Absolom, Hezekiah, Obadiah, Erastus, 
Thankful, Abijah, Ebenezer, Elijah, 
Ezekiel, Elected, Solomon, Durham, Reu- 
ben, and Jonathan. 

The "pieces" selected should be as old 
"timey" as possible. Imagine Humility 
Tenderheart, arrayed in the old-time 
straight garabaldi dress, white pantalets 
and stockings, low black shoes, and with 
hair parted and brushed smoothly down 
behind her ears, reciting "Twinkle, Twin- 
kle, Little Star," with a wonderful store of 
gestures and low curtesies; or Philander 
Philistine in old-time sack apron and long 
trowsers wading through "Mary Had a 
Little Lamb." 

Of course some members of the school 
will forget their "piece" and -have to be 
prompted, while others will fail entirely 
and be sent to their seats in tears and dis- 
grace. During a lull in the exercises 
some favored one will be allowed "to pass 
the water," using for the purpose an old- 
time gourd dipper ; some unhappy urchin, 
caught in a misdemeanor, will be forced 
to stand on a high stool and wear a dunce, 
cap. 

The stage should be arranged to simu- 
late an old-time schoolroom with rough 
clap-board benches for seats and old-fash- 
ioned chairs for teacher and "school com- 
mittee." At the close of the exercise, the 
school committee should make speeches. 

The tickets and programmes must be as 
old-style as possible, both in construction 
and spelling. 

An old-time singing school may be ar- 
ranged in the same manner as the exhibi- 
tion, substituting a singing class for the 
school and a singing school teacher for the 
school teacher. 



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A TREE FESTIVAL. 



AN OLD-TIME HUSKING BEE. 

HE room should be arranged to repre- 
sent an old-time barn, hay and straw 
bursting through the ceiling, harness, ox- 
yokes, rakes, hoes, shovels, flails, pitch- 
forks, etc., hanging on the walls. In the 
center of the room a huge pile of un- 
husked corn ; around this should be placed 
boxes, barrels, milking stools, benches, and 
old chairs, which are to be utilized as 
seats for the guests; the old-time stable 
lanterns should be used for lighting, and 
plenty of them provided. 

A couple dressed to represent an old 
farmer and his wife receive the guests, 
who arrive singly and in groups; much 
hand-shaking and hearty cheer should be 
evinced in the reception of the guests. 
The guests are seated around the corn- 
heap and the work of husking begins. An 
old black fiddler occupies a high barrel in 
one corner and renders such airs as "Com- 
in' Through the Eye," "Money Musk," 
and "The Girl I Left Behind Me." This 
music is varied by harvest songs, recita- 
tions and stories by the guests. The scene 
is enlivened by the scramble that ensues 
when some lucky swain announces that he 
has found a red ear and signifies his in- 
tention of claiming the reward thereof, 
which consists of a kiss from the lips of 
each pretty maiden present, the merry 
chase and final capture producing much 
merriment among the guests. 

A feast of old-time "goodies," such as 
pumpkin and mince pie, roasted fowl, 
sponge cake, pickles, coffee, milk, etc., 
should be served from long tables covered 
with turkey-red cloths and set in old-time 
style with old-time dishes. The waiters 
should be the farmer's wife and several 
of the elderly women guests. 



A TREE FESTIVAL. 

BECOKATE with green vines, boughs 
and foliage of all kinds; the blos- 
soms of the locust and hawthorn will be 
in keeping with the subject. Tree quota- 



tions should be written on stiff cardboard 
and cut into two portions ; on entering 
the room each lady is given one of these 
parts; the remaining slips are placed in 
envelopes, thoroughly mixed, and sold to 
the gentlemen for twenty-five cents each. 
This entitles them to supper for themselves 
and the lady who bears the remainder of 
the slip, and whom they must find by 
completing their quotation; a committee 
should be appointed, whose duty it is to 
assist all gentlemen who find it difficult to 
compare their quotation, as some will be 
found, no doubt, to whom the quotations 
are unknown, and these helpers will pre- 
vent embarrassment on this score. 

A Tree Test Game is printed on small 
cards with space after each question for 
the answer. These are sold to each couple 
for two cents, this entitling them to com- 
pete for the prizes, of which there are two, 
one for the Mdy, another for the gentle- 
man; on completing the lists they are 
placed in a basket provided for the pur- 
pose and are then examined by a commit- 
tee appointed for the task, the name of 
the winners being announced and prizes 
given just before the breaking up of the 
party. The prizes should consist of 
books relating to trees, or may be pictures 
of forest scenes. 

TEEE TEST GAME. 

1 — What is the double tree ? (Pear.) 
2 — What tree is nearest the sea? 

(Beech.) 
3 — Name the languishing tree ? (Pine.) 
4— What is 
(Date.) 

5 — What tree would adorn a lady's cos- 
tume? (Fringe.) 
G — What tree is adapted to hold shirt- 
waists? (Box.) 
7 — What tree will keep you warm ? (Fir) 
8 — The Egyptian plague tree? (Locust.) 
9 — The tree we offer friends at meeting 
and parting? (Palm.) 
10— The traitor's tree? (Judas.) 
3 1 — The tree found in churches ? (Elder.) 
12 — The fiery tree? (Burning Bush.) 



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13 — The tree used in wet weather ? (Rub- 
ber.) 
14 — The tree that protects from the fierce 

heat of sun? (Umbrella.) 
15 — The tree used in kissing? (Tulip.) 
16— The level tree ? (Plane. ) 
17 — The tree used in a bottle? (Cork.) 
18 — The fisherman's tree? (Basswood.) 
19 — A tree that belongs to the sea ? (Bay.) 
20 — The tree you pickle? (Cucumber.) 
21 — An immortal tree? (Arbor Vitae.) 
22 — A tree worn in Oriental countries ? 

(Sandal.) 
23 — A tree used in battle? (Bayonet.) 
24 — A tree used in drawing an accurate 

line? (Plum.) 
25 — A tree used to describe pretty girls ? 

(Peach.) 
26 — An emblem of grief? (Weeping 

Willow.) 
27 — A personal pronoun tree? (Yew.) 
28 — The sweetest tree? (Maple.) 

After research we present the following 
tree quotations suitable for this entertain- 
ment, realizing the difficulty presented in 
finding a great number of quotations on 
one subject, unless ample time is given to 
such research: 

"One impulse of the vernal wood 
May teach you more of man, 
Of mortal evil and of good 
Than all the sages can." 

— William Wordsworth. 

"Like leaves on trees the life of man is 
found, 
Eow green in youth, now withering on 
the ground." — Alexander Pope. 

" 'Tis sweet to visit the still wood, where 
springs 
The. first flower of the plain." 
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 

"The pine forests thrill with emotion 
Of praise, as the spirit sweeps by." 

— Philip Brooks. 



"Alas for him who never sees 
The stars shine through his cypress 
trees." — John G. Whittier. 

"A little of thy steadfastness, 
Rounded with leafy gracefulness, 
Old oak, give me." 

— James R. Lowell. 

"Summer or winter, day or night, 
The woods are ever a new delight." 
— Richard Henry Stoddard. 

"0 whispering trees, companions, sages, 
friends, 
No change in you, whatever friendship 
euds." — Miller. 

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods ; 
There is rapture on the lonely shore." 
— Lord Byron. 

"Faint murmurs from the pine tops reach 
my ear, 
As if a harp string touched in some far 

sphere 
Vibrating in the lucid atmosphere, 
Let the south wind waft its music here." 
— Thos. Baily Aldrich. 

"Not merely growing like a tree 
In bulk doth make men better be." 

— Ben. Jonson. 

"Then rears the ash his airy crest, 
Then shines the birch in silver vest." 
— Sir Walter Scott. 

"He who plants a tree 
Plants a hope," — Lucy Larcom. 

"The wood is wiser far than thou ; 
The wood and wave each other know." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson. 



A CHURCH BIRTHDAY FETE. 

HIS is designed for a church anniver- 
fp> sary gathering. Most churches now 
celebrate this occasion. The church 
should be appropriately decorated; if the 
anniversary occurs during the spring or 



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A PINE SOCIAL. 



summer flowers and grasses may be, util- 
ized; if in the autumn the brilliant au- 
tumn foliage will be found beautiful in 
its effect; if in the winter season the 
national colors may be utilized. 

A program largely instrumental should 
be provided. All recitations, papers and 
addresses should be along the birthday 
theme. A biography of the church may 
be written by some, elderly member and 
read by the church secretary. 

The oldest member of the church should 
be seated on the right of the pastor, the 
youngest on the left. A birthday praise 
service may be held, each member of the 
congregation taking some active part. A 
birthday offering should be given the 
church; this may be accomplished in 
various ways, one being in the form of a 
birthday box in which each member of the 
church, Sunday school and young peo- 
ple's society deposits as many pennies as 
they are years old; another plan is to 
bring clothing, food, etc., which is distrib- 
uted among the poor of the parish. 



A CONT&AST SOCIAL. 

I HIS will be found a very pleasant 
function if properly carried out. 
The hall or church should be separated 
into two parts by stretching ribbons down 
the center aisle; on one side the decora- 
tions should represent the long ago, the 
other the present time. A stage, should 
be erected with good rolling curtains ; here 
should be enacted scenes contrasting the 
life of long ago with that of the present 
time ; much care should be taken in the 
preparation of the costumes for these tab- 
leaux, as much of the beauty depends up- 
on the setting. 

Two refreshment tables should be pro- 
vided, one representing the past, the other 
the present. The past table should have 
antique dishes and homespun cloths, if 
they are available. It should be lighted 
by candles in brass candlesticks, and the 
attendants should be dressed in olden 



style. The menu should consist of baked 
beans, brown bread, Indian pudding, 
pumpkin pie, doughnuts, spice cake and 
cottage cheese, with the homely butter- 
milk as a refreshing drink. The tables 
of the present day may be decorated with 
flowers and dainty china and glassware — 
be lighted with gas or electric lights, and 
the waiters dressed in modern style. The 
menu may consist of any of the light 
foods served at such a function. 



A PINE SOCIAL. 



I HE rooms should be decorated in 
evergreen, garlands of which are 
draped over the walls and held in place 
by wreaths of the same. In the center of 
the refreshment table place a round mir- 
ror, the frame of which is concealed by a 
wreath of evergreen. A tall vase of flow- 
ers may be placed on the mirror. The 
waiters should wear white gowns decorated 
with green. The menu is composed en- 
tirely of pineapple delicacies, served in 
various ways. The following menu will 
be found suitable for the occasion: 

Pineapple Sandwiches. 

Pineapple Ambrosia. 

Pineapple Cream with White Cake 

(pineapple, filling.) 

Pineapple Cream. Pineapple Frappe. 

Pineapple Sandwiches — Cut the pine- 
apple in thin slices, and these again quite 
small, dust with powdered sugar and ar- 
range between thin slices of buttered 
bread. Cut into dainty shapes and serve. 

Pineapple Cream — Peel and chop fine 
one small pineapple and let it cook with 
one pound of sugar until it is soft and 
clear. Pub through a sieve. Add two 
tablespoonfuls of gelatine, which has been 
previously soaked for two hours in a half 
cupful of cold water. Let the mixture 
cool by setting in refrigerator. When 
cold place in an ice cream freezer and 
freeze; when nearly stiff add a pint of 
whipped cream. 



A PINK AND WHITE FESTIVAL. 



Pineapple Ambrosia — Provide one pint 
of ripe strawberries, one pint of chopped 
pineapple and a pint of rich cream. Whip 
the cream to a froth. Place a layer of 
pineapple in a glass dish, sprinkle with 
sugar, cover with the whipped cream, then 
with a layer of strawberries and sugar 
and cream again. Continue in this man- 
ner until the dish is full. Heap the re- 
mainder of the cream on top and serve 
very cold, with cake. 

Pineapple Frappe — Boil together for 
twenty minutes one pint of sugar and one 
pint of water. Add to this the grated 
pulp and juice of a very ripe, pineapple, 
boil this mixture two minutes longer. 
Add the juice, of two lemons, and the whip- 
ped whites of two eggs. Freeze until it 
is the right consistency. This will be 
found delicious. 



A WHEEL BAZAAR. 

I J HIS festival was a novelty in that 
every sales-table was round and 
decorated to represent a wheel. 

The flower table had as a center piece 
a tall crystal vase, containing American 
Beauty roses, this vase was placed on a 
round mirror, surrounded by a wreath of 
smilax ; this formed the hub of the wheel ; 
the spokes w r ere formed of long strips of 
smilax, trailing vines and ferns radiating 
from the. center, while the whole was sur- 
mounted by a tire formed of tiny potted 
plants ; within the intervening spaces were 
grouped the potted plants and cut flowers 
on sale. The culinary had a huge cake for 
a hub; the spokes being formed of long 
rows of tiny tarts, filled with rich jam and 
bearing the tiniest possible spoonful of 
whipped cream on its surface; the re- 
mainder of the goods was distributed over 
the remaining surface of the table. 

The fruit table had for a hub a pyramid 
of oranges, while rows of rosy-cheeked 
apples formed the spokes, between which 
were ranged glasses of jams, preserves, 
jells and other fresh fruits. 



The confectionary table had 'hub, spokes 
and tire all of toothsome chocolate creams, 
while the interior was filled with bags, 
made of fancy Japanese napkins, filled 
with candies; the effect was beautiful in 
the extreme, the bags having the appear 
ance of myriads of butterflies poised for 
flight. 

The table, devoted to decorative work, 
occupied the center of the room and was 
much larger than the other tables. The 
hub consisted of a beautiful lace-decked 
sofa-cushion ; the spokes were formed of a 
series of oblong pin-cushions, ranged one 
after the other, while the tire was formed 
of stamped linen doilies, rolled into oblong 
cylinders wrapped in the skeins of bright- 
colored silks required for working same; 
other fancy articles occupied the remain- 
ing space of the table. The table devoted 
to children was most amusing, the hub be- 
ing formed of a pyramid of balls, covered 
in bright wools, from this center radiated 
long rows of Noah's Ark figures, each ap- 
pearing to chase the other, these animals 
were continued around the outer edge of 
the table. 

The. refreshment table was a circular 
one, decorated with flowers and foliage, 
following out the wheel idea — the tire be- 
ing formed of souvenir bouquets for the 
guests ; the cakes, ice cream and sand- 
wiches were cut in circular forms, these 
with iced drinks and fruits completed the 
menu. 



A PINK AKD WHITE FESTIVAL. 

fP possible a roomy house with spacious 
verandas and grounds should be chos- 
en for this gathering. Plenty of Japanese 
lanterns should be used in the decorations, 
but for the principal lights a few head- 
lights should be obtained, those with re- 
flectors, and the light for the evening is 
secured. A few r large tables sheltered with 
screens may be prepared to serve from; 
the refreshment tables should be small 
ones, square or round or both ; these should 



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A SALAD SUPPER. 



be placed on both lawn and veranda, as 
there are always some people who object 
to being on the grass after night-fall. The 
china should be pink and white, the table 
napery of white, with pink decoration. 
Flowers are the prettiest decorations, these 
may be had in a number of varieties ; one 
table may be decorated in carnations, an- 
other in pink roses, sweet peas may be 
utilized on another, the pink verbenas and 
phlox will also be available during the 
summer season. Pretty individual bou- 
quets may be arranged for each cover; 
white paper napkins with a border decora- 
tion of pink may be used, as church 
suppers are hard on the linen. Music 
should be provided, the orchestra, band or 
manipulators of the stringed instruments 
being hidden behind a bower of green 
boughs. 

The refreshments may be hearty and yet 
not heavy; the pink and white idea must 
here be carried out also ; cold boiled ham 
and tongue thinly sliced and decorated 
with parsley, will answer for meats. A 
salad composed of rich red tomatoes, cut 
in half and bearing a spoonful of golden 
mayonnaise dressing, will be tempting as 
well as decorative; radishes will serve as 
a pink relish. Individual strawberry 
shortcakes, choice cream, strawberry ice 
cream or strawberries and cream may be 
used as dessert; angel cake and the white 
and silver cakes cut in fancy shapes may 
be served with the fruit. Rolls and pats 
of butter should be served with the meats. 

In a conspicuous place should be set a 
table holding a glass bowl of strawberry 
frappe, to be served as a drink, in small 
crystal glasses. A block of ice, hollowed 
out and holding a pink candle in its center 
may be, placed in the center of the dish, 
thus insuring coldness. 

The waiters may wear pink muslin 
dresses, and white caps and aprons. The 
hair may be decorated with fancy ribbon 
bows of pink or pink flowers. 

We give the recipe for the strawberry 
frappe, for the benefit of any of our 
readers who may not be able to secure a 



really good recipe: Use one quart of 
berry juice, four cupfuls of sugar, and the 
juice of two lemons, three pints of water 
and a few whole strawberries, the finest 
available; freeze and keep on ice until 
ready to serve. This amount is for an 
ordinary number of people and must be 
increased according to the company. 



A SALAD SUPPER. 

SALAD SUPPER may be. made 
an attractive affair, and lend variety 
to the many church suppers, served in 
these days. Each of the salads should be 
served in the daintiest possible manner; 
the menu cards may be of delicate green 
paper, cut in the form of cucumbers, or 
lettuce leaves. The tables should be in 
white and green, the napery of white, the 
decorations in green smilax or ferns. 
Green wax candles, with white shades will 
be a pretty addition. 

At the close of the supper, pretty china 
plates, bearing a heap of green paper 
leaves, each of which contains a conun- 
drum, are passed to each guest, each draw- 
ing one from thereon, which will afford 
amusement for the evening. 

We give below a menu of salads, also 
directions for preparing same : 

SALAD SUrPEE. 

Oyster Salad. Cucumber Salad. 

Tomato Salad. 

Brown Bread and Butter. 

Cream Cheese Salad. Daisv Salad. 

Nut Salad. 

Coffee. 

Oyster Salad — Parboil slightly in their 
own liquor the desired number of very 
small oysters. Drain, cool, sprinkle with 
lemon juice, salt and pepper, and stand, 
covered, in the ice box for two hours. Add 
to them half the quantity of celery cut in 
slender inch strips. Serve with French 
dressing and garnish with olives. 

Cucumber Salad — Cut cucumbers 
Lengthwise, scoop out the centers, leaving 



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125 



them about half an inch thich. Put these 
boats into ice water. Cast out most of the 
seeds from the remainder of the cucumbers 
and mix with water cress, celery, and a 
few capers, all chopped together. Add a 
white mayonnaise to this and fill the boats, 
which have been wiped dry; put on plates 
and sprinkle with minced parsley. 

Tomato Salad — Select small whole 
yellow tomatoes. Put them in a wire fry- 
ing basket, dip quickly into boiling water 
and remove the skins. Spread on a plate 
and leave in the ice box until just before 
serving. Then pile in golden pyramids on 
bleached lettuce leaves, garnish with a 
border of parsley, and give the whole, a 
bath of French dressing containing a little 
mustard. 

Cream Cheese Salad — The cheese after 
separating from the curd, in the usual 
manner, is made into balls, arranged in 
nests of lettuce leaves and mayonnaise, 
sprinkled with red and black pepper. 
Serve with toasted wafers. 

Daisy Salad — On each individual plate 
arrange a half dozen lettuce leaves. Press 
the yolks of hard boiled eggs through a 
colander, mix lightly with enough salad 
dressing to form into soft centers, for the 
daisies which are formed of the whites of 
the eggs cut into narrow strips. 



A SPRING OPENING. 

:yV) XEW and novel entertainment for 
]n\" a young people's society is the 
"spring opening." It is an entertainment 
that requires talent, skill and energy on 
the part of the entertainers. 

At the "spring opening" any number of 
guests may be provided for, an unlimited 
number of tiny tissue paper hats of the 
daintiest creation must be fashioned, to be 
presented as souvenirs of the occasion. 
These hats may be in all of the latest 
modes as the turbans, pompadours, tam-o- 
shanters, toques, etc. These souvenir hats 
were first designed of crinoline, then cov- 
ered with the tissue paper, the crepe 



paper will be found the most satisfactory 
as it may bo bent and twisted without 
tearing; the flowers were fashioned of 
French tissue paper. 

Many more crinoline shapes must be 
made for the contest of the evening ; these 
shapes may be made with a round flat 
brim and a crown in proportion, after the 
leghorn style. Next the paper should be 
provided for making the flowers. French 
tissue, should be provided for these ; a 
quantity of flowers are made up, these to 
be used by the gentlemen in the contest, 
the materials being provided for the ladies 
to manufacture their own flowers for 
decoration in the contest. The ribbon pro- 
vided for the adornment of the hats, con- 
sists of strips of crepe paper, in a variety 
of colors. When the guests have assembled 
each is provided with a shape, a quantity 
of crepe paper for covering the same, 
several strips of crepe ribbon, and the. gen- 
tlemen with the flowers, the ladies with 
the material for fashioning the flowers ; 
twenty pins is given each. Immediately 
all fall to work to trim the hats, plenty of 
time should be given for the. work ; at the 
expiration of the time, the hats are placed 
on exhibition and a committee appointed 
by the hostess, decides to whom the prize, 
is due; a pretty hat pin is given the suc- 
cessful contestant. 

After the entertainment is closed the 
hats are sold at auction, each being 
"knocked off" to the highest bidder ; more 
amusement will be afforded if the name of 
the trimmer be attached to each hat. At 
the. close of the millinery sale, refresh- 
ments may be served at a stated price per 
ticket. 



NURSERY BARGAIN COUNTER. 

fHIS may be made a very amusing 
entertainment; the characters being 
adapted from the famous Mother Hubbard 
nursery rhymes. The room is arranged in 
stalls, over each being placed a sign bear- 
ing the name of the shop owner and his 



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principal wares. Each participant is 
dressed to represent the chosen character. 

Music for the occasion may be furn- 
ished from Mother Hubbard's numerous 
family; a good soloist may represent 
" Tommy Tucker/' and appear at intervals 
before such stalls as contain refreshments, 
where he literally "sings for his supper," 
never failing to obtain some toothsome 
dainty which he should eat with much 
gusto before the company, thus affording 
amusement, as well as pleasure in his 
songs. A cornist may represent "Boy 
Blue," and blow the same when requested 
to do so by a guest. The ever vigilant 
"Mother Hubbard," in full dress is here, 
there and everywhere to see that her 
children perform their duty. 

"Old King Cole and his fiddlers three," 
render the greater portion of the music of 
the evening, each in costume should 
occupy the platform erected for their 
especial benefit. 

"Daffy-down-Dilly" should have charge 
of the flower stall, where he serves all 
customers with pretty courtesy. 

"Mary, Mary Quite Contrary" deals in 
"silver bells and cockle shells," together 
with all sorts of pretty ornaments as stick- 
pins, sea-grasses and shells, coral beads, 
lace-pins, etc. 

The "Queen of Hearts," dresses in a 
white costume decorated with red hearts 
cut from fancy paper, deals in tarts, con- 
fectionery, ices and cakes. 

"Simple Simon" carries a stock of 
fisher's goods, also canned salmon, sardines 
and heaps of crackers and wafers, thus 
providing a hasty luncheon for his admir- 
ing followers. 

"The Old Woman Who Lived in a 
Shoe," has dolls of all sizes and nation- 
alities, for which she finds ready sale 
among the little ones. "Jack-Be-Nimble" 
has a stock of athletic goods including 
balls, bats, boxing gloves, tennis outfits, 
hammocks, etc.; and as a "drawing card" 
for customers, is occasionally seen to 
"jump over the candle-stick." "Jack 
Lt" and his fat wife, have an assort- 



ment of beautiful china articles, among 
which is displayed the historic platter. 

"Three pretty Maids," introduce a 
Mother Goose game, which consists in 
their pinning on the back of each guest a 
name of some nursery character, and the 
person must guess his identity, by the 
questions asked. 




A SUCCESSFUL CHURCH RALLY. 

AKE the church a fairy bower, by 
utilizing all the potted plants, and 
cut flowers available in the parish. A 
beautiful effect may be secured by forming 
a series of arches, down the center aisle of 
the church, by fastening a heavy woven 
wire network from opposite seats; these 
arches should be covered with greenery, 
the airy asparagus will be found very 
suitable for this work. The chancel 
should be decorated with palms and lilies, 
the window frames covered with green, 
thus making each separate window a 
beautiful dream of living green as it were. 

In the church parlors have tables 
arranged to serve as many guests at one sit- 
ting as possible. The parlors should be 
decorated with flowers, greenery and a 
sprinkling of the national colors ; the table 
linen should be of the whitest, and floAvers 
used as table decorations. Pretty sou- 
venirs, consisting of plain white visiting 
cards on which has been written a scrip- 
tural text, may be placed at each cover. 
The refreshments should be very simple, 
but most daintily served; the waiters be- 
ing dressed in pure white. 

Invitations should be sent to all former 
members of the congregation that can be 
located. All former pastors should be in- 
vited, the pastors and societies of the 
neighboring churches of the town. The 
rally should be held near the middle of 
the week, thus making it possible for out 
of town ministers to attend, which they 
could hardly do were it held on Sunday. 

The exercises should be spirited, sing- 
ing forming the greater portion of same, 



BABY TEAS. 



I 



a chorus of many voices may be secured, 
by inviting the singers of other churches 
of the town, to join the usual church choir. 
The addresses should be short, the subject 
selected for same being pithy and "catch- 
ing." A time limit should be placed on 
each speaker, thus avoiding the many 
speakers who forget the lapse of time at 
such events and thus prolong the sessions 
of such meetings. These exercises may be- 
gin in the morning, the refreshments being- 
served at the noon hour, the afternoon 
session be held, and the. meeting be 
crowned by a church lawm social during 
the evening. 



A WEEKLY BAZAAR. 

HIS bazaar consists of seven booths, 
one to represent each day of the 
week. 

The Sunday booth should be decorated 
in white — emblem of purity — the soft 
draperies may be caught up with flowers; 
palms should be used as interior decor- 
ations. In this booth should be kept for 
sale prayer-books, tiny pocket testaments, 
Bibles, book-marks, sacred music, illum- 
inated Bible mottoes and text cards, pic- 
tures of noted divines, missionaries, etc. 

Monday's booth should be devoted to all 
articles typical of this busy day, clothes- 
pins and clothes-pin bags, laundry-lists 
and laundry bags, clothes-pin aprons, 
clothes-lines, pulley-rings, etc. This booth 
may be decorated in yellow, representing 
the sunshine, so necessary to the success- 
ful achievement of Monday's work. 

Tuesday's booth should be devoted to 
ironing supplies, skirt-boards, sleeve- 
boards, shirtwaist boards, iron-holders, 
and bags for same, ironing-wax, starch, etc. 

Wednesday being sewing, mending and 
darning day, many are the articles for this 
day's sale. Here may be displayed beauti- 
ful workboxes and baskets with fittings for 
same, thimbles, emery bags, needle books, 
pincushions and balls, mending-cotton in 



all colors, darning-eggs, darning-bags, 
scrapbags, stocking-bags, etc. 

Thursday's booth may be devoted to all 
sorts of fancy work, art and reading-mat- 
ter. Here are to be found embroidered 
doilies, and some stamped for working 
with the necessary silk for same, braids 
for Honiton and Battenburg work, 
sofa pillow covers in all the. popular 
designs, the beautiful drawn work 
and hemstitched fancy work now so 
popular, in fact every and all devices 
which may present themselves to the minds 
of the committee having this booth in 
charge. The decorations of this booth may 
be formed of the articles for sale, and, 
properly arranged, they will be found 
most attractive. 

Friday being general cleaning day, it 
may be devoted to dusters, brooms, dust- 
ing-bags, sweeping-caps, dustpans, chamois 
skins, brushes and polishers. Here, may 
also be found linen furniture covers to be 
used while the rooms are undergoing their 
weekly cleaning. 

Saturday's booth is devoted to the 
culinary art. Here, are found all sorts 
of cooking utensils, recipe books, and 
samples of cooking fashioned after these 
recipes. 

One side of the room is devoted to re- 
freshment tables. Here printed bills-of- 
fare are provided, with all articles 
spelled backward, much wonderment will 
be expressed at this, until the secret is dis- 
covered. The following bill-of-fare may 
be utilized : 

Llib fo Eraf. 

Sevilo. 
Eci Maerc. 



Eugnot Sehciwdnas. 



Seirrebwarts. 



Edanomel. 



Ekac. 



Eeffoc. 



BABY TEAS. 



» ABY TEAS have now taken the 
place of the "Book Parties" of last 
year. The guests are asked to bring 
photographs of themselves when they were 



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babies, or, at least before they were six 
years of age. The hostess receives all the 
portraits, numbers them and arranges 
them all together. Each guest is provided 
with a numbered list. They are allowed 
some little time to study the photographs 
and write down on their lists the names of 
the people they believe, the pictures to 
represent. The most correct list wins the 
prize. A vote is also taken as to which is 
the prettiest baby represented, and the 
person to whom this photo belongs is 
awarded a prize. The prizes to be appro- 
priate should consist of toys, baby rattles, 
packages of infant foods, etc. 

To make this tea a decided success, the 
guests may be entertained with children's 
games as "Button, Button;" "Hunt the 
Whistle;" "I Spy." etc. 

The refreshments should consist of such 
dainties as children are. especially fond, 
and bibs — printed with outline inscrip- 
tions, as "Our Pet," "A Nice Child," etc. 
— may be used instead of napkins. The 
mugs, bearing such inscriptions as "Mam- 
ma's Darling," "For A Good Boy," etc., 
may be used for drinking purposes. 

This will be found an amusing enter- 
tainment, and very easily arranged. 



A CORN FESTIVAL. 

fITE walls should be draped in yellow 
bunting, caught up with yellow and 
white pop-corn in the ear. Corn in stalk 
and ear should enter into the decoration ; 
young ladies dressed in corn color gowns, 
wearing caps and sashes of white should 
receive at the door; the waitresses should 
wear the same costume, with the addition 
of white aprons. 

The tables, small round or square ones, 
should have white napery and decorations 
of yellow chrysanthemums. White and 
yellow wax candles may be added. 

A corn menu should be served ; this may 
consist of delicacies made from corn- 
starch, corn chowder, corn fritters with 



maple syrup and popcorn served in vari- 
ous ways. 

A game known as a Corn Quotation 
hunt may be indulged in, these quotations 
are cut in two or more, portions and dis- 
tributed among the guests, who endeavor 
to find the portions and fit them together, 
the person first succeeding in doing so be- 
ing entitled to a book of poems. 

The following corn-game may also be 
played, the cards having spaces after each 
question where the answers may be 
written : 

1 — What corn is used by a musician ? 
(Cornet.) 

2 — What corn is used by carpenters ? 
(Cornice.) 

3 — A corn that children hail with de- 
light ? (Popcorn.) 

4 — The chief corn of a building ? (Corn- 
er-stone.) 

5 — A language? (Cornish.) 

6 — A corn in which florists delight ? 
( Cornflower. ) 

7 — An ornamental corn ? (Cornucopia.) 

9 — A corn that flies ? (Corncrake.) 
10 — A corn in which rodents delight to re- 
side? (Corn-crib.) 
11 — A corn used by the cook? (Corn- 
starch.) 
12 — A corn dear to the heart of the South- 
erner ? ( Corn-cake. ) 

A game known as the "Garden of 
Ceres" may also be played ; a leader begins 
the game by remarking to her neighbor, 
"Ceres is planting her garden," then asks 
each guest in turn what fruit, grain or 
vegetable he will contribute. When all 
have contributed she. asks each why his 
gift, as chosen, is appropriate in this par- 
ticular evening. One who has given a 
grapevine may reply, "Because its fruit- 
always appears in clusters, like our friends 
are here grouped." Or the one giving 
"beans" may answer, "Because the best 
part is hidden, like the fruits of these 
lives," etc. Anyone failing to give a 
prompt and satisfactory answer must take 
the place of the questioner, Ceres. 



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CORN QUOTATIONS. 

"Heap high the farmer's wintry board, 
Heap high the golden corn ; 
No richer gift has Autumn poured, 
From out her lavish horn." — John Green- 
leaf Whittier. 

"Woods and corn-fields a little brown, — 
The picture must not be over bright, — 
Yet all in the golden and gracious light 
Of a cloud when the summer sun is 
down." — Alice Cary. 

"And near, untried through the summer 
days, 
Stand the bearded ranks of the maize." 
— Alice Cary. 

"Among the stubbled corn 
The blithe quail pipes at morn." — 
George Arnold. 

"See upon the garner floor — 
Wheat and corn in ample, store." — Yen- 
able. 

"Acres on acres, stretch away, 
Of woodland, corn, of wheat and hay." 
— Goodwin. 

"Out in the fields one summer night, 
We were together, half afraid 
Of the corn-leaves rustling." — Alice 
Cary. 

"The dandelions are blossoming near, 
The maize has sprouted, the streams are 

flowing, 
And the. river is bluer than the sky." — 

James Russell Lowell. 

"The husky, rusty rustle of the tossels of 
the corn 
And the raspin' of the tangled leaves, as 
golden as the morn." — James Whit- 
comb Riley. 

"The corn, oh the corn, 'tis the ripening of 
the corn, 
Go unto the door, my lad and look be- 
neath the moon, 
Thou canst see beyond the woodrick, 
how it is j'elloon; 



'Tis the harvesting of the wheat, and the 
barley must be shorn !" — Black- 
more. 

"Let us gather in the harvest, 
Let us wrestle with Mondamen ; 
Strip him of his plumes and tassels, 
Of his garments green and yellow." — 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 

"The goldenrod is yellow, 
The corn is turning brown, 
The trees in apple-orchards 
With fruit are bending down." — 
Selected. 



A QUILT FAIR. 



pOB, a new and striking church social 
\§J& nothing outshines a quilt fair. In 
every rural community will be found many 
old grand-dames who have stored away 
among their treasures numerous quilts, 
composed of scores of tiny scraps, which 
they pieced and quilted in the far away 
days of their girlhood; in order that the 
fair be made a success these beautiful 
pieces of handiwork must be brought from 
their seclusion and used in decorative art ; 
no other decorations will be needed ; wires 
should be stretched along the sides, and 
across the room whereon these beauties 
may be displayed; it is surprising what 
beautiful results may thus be obtained if 
the arrangement be artistic. 

Each quilt should be numbered in large 
type, that may be read from all parts of 
the room ; on entering the room each guest 
is handed a card with the request that, 
after a careful review of the exhibits he 
register the number of the one he deems 
most beautiful and drop the card into a 
basket, placed on a table in the center of 
the room; by this popular vote, a first, 
second and third premium will be be- 
stowed on the exhibits, said premiums to 
consist of rosettes of red, white and blue 
ribbon. 

If desired a quilt composed of innumer- 



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AN OLD-FASHIONED SPELLING-BEE. 



able pieces may be selected and each guest 
requested to register a guess of the number 
of pieces it contains, in a register placed 
in a convenient place, the nearest guess 
being entitled to a small prize. 

A quantity of white muslin rectangles 
should be provided and each guest asked to 
write his name upon these, in an indelible 
ink, these pieces are stored away, and at 
some future meeting of the Ladies' Sewing 
Society are combined with turkey-red 
calico, and converted into an autograph 
quilt, which may be sold at some future 
bazaar, thus adding a neat sum to the 
treasury of the society. 

An admission fee may be charged at the 
door, and simple refreshments served at 
this function. A Quilt Game may be sold 
at a small price to competitors and a pretty 
lounge afghan offered as a premium. 

QUILT GAME. 

1 — What quilt would yacht-owners 

choose? (Ocean Wave.) 
2 — What quilt would be the choice of the 

washerwoman? (Basket). 
3 — What quilt would famous people be 

asked to contribute? (Autograph.) 
4 — What quilt is found in insane 

asylums? (Crazy.) 
5 — What quilt is found in parlors ? 

(Album.) 
6 — For what quilt do fishermen seek ? 

(Herring-bone.) 
7 — What quilt will be found at the 

florists? (Tulip.) 
S — What quilt is dear to the Irishman's 

heart? (Irish chain.) 
'.) — What quilt would be chosen by base- 
ball enthusiasts ? (Diamond.) 
10 — What quilt would dudes prefer? 

(Necktie.) 



AN OLD-FASHIONED SPELLING-BEE. 

JOR novelty in a church entertainment 
an old-fashioned spelling-bee may be 
introduced. Two captains should be 
selected ; they take their places side by side 
in the center of one end of the room, while 



the teacher (selected by the president of 
the social committee) stands before them 
spelling-book in hand, with the index 
finger of the right hand placed between its 
pages ; the captains then proceed -to guess 
the pa'ge nearest this finger, the one suc- 
ceeding having the first choice of 
the spellers in the room; the "choosing" 
is continued alternately, until all persons 
in the room have been chosen, anyone re- 
fusing to spell must pay a fine of ten cents. 

The "choosing" being finished, the 
teacher asks which way they prefer to spell 
first. There are several different modes 
of conducting the spelling, one being to 
spell the words alternately from side to 
side, those missing leaving the ranks, until 
but one remains, and the side which had 
this one remaining is said to have beaten. 
Another mode is to choose some one person 
from one side and let him spell against all 
members of the opposite side, and then in 
turn against the members of his own side, 
if he succeeds in doing this he, is counted 
the champion and is said to have "spelled 
down" the school and is entitled to the 
prize, should one be offered. 

Another form is "catching up the 
words," if a word is mis-spelled, the 
teacher never mentions the fact, but con- 
tinues to pronounce as if all words have 
been properly spelled. Any persoa notic- 
ing the mis-spelled is at liberty, whe» his 
time comes to spell, to "catch up" the said 
word, spell it correctly and pass above the 
person who missed it; if a member of the 
opposite side "catches it up," the person 
who missed it is ruled out of the game ; the 
game in this mode is to turn down the 
captain, this being deemed a great honor, 
as the captains are. supposed to be the best- 
spellers in the school. The newest spelling 
game of modern days is "progressive 
spelling," and is played as follows: the 
spellers take their places on the floor in one 
long row, with but one captain ; said cap- 
tain thinks of a word, pronounces the first 
letter of same ; the speller standing next to 
him must think of some word beginning 
with the letter he has called and add a 



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131 



second letter ; the third speller must think 
of a word having at the beginning the two 
letters already mentioned and add a third, 
thus the game continues, a new letter being 
added each time; if a word is ended the 
speller having ended same must pass to the 
foot of the class ; if a speller fails to think 
of a word requiring his letter before the 
teacher counts ten he also passes to the 
foot of the class ; a person seeming to pro- 
nounce a letter without having a word in 
view, may be challenged by any member 
of the class, if he had a word in view and 
pronounces same, then the pupil who 
challenged must pass to the foot, if how- 
ever it is proven that he had no word in 
view he must pass to the foot ; the winner 
of this game is the one who stands at the 
head of the class longest. 

An old-time necktie box supper may be 
added to this entertainment thus affording 
another source of revenue; the boxes are 
prepared and filled by the young ladies, 
who enclose in them a necktie made of the 
same material as the dress or waist which 
she wears ; the box is purchased by a 
gentleman who finds his lady to share the 
contents by matching the necktie found in 
the box with the costume of some lady 
present. 



A FOREST SUPPER. 

(For the Little Ones.) 

PEETTY fad for little folks' parties 
\is% is the "Forest Supper." It charms 
the little folks as well as people of a larger 
growth. The table is laid as Usual in the 
dining-room, or, if the weather is pleasant, 
on the veranda, or, better still, the green 
lawn ; the cloth white and the center-piece 
a tiny evergreen tree, set in a pot of sand 
to prevent its toppling over; the pot is 
covered with white crepe paper, tied with 
narrow green ribbons. 

Beside each plate is a dainty bunch of 
maiden-hair fern ; dainty custard cups are 
formed of oranges cut in halves, the center 
scooped out and refilled with gelatine 



colored a delicate green, with pistachio. 
Rosy apples are piled around the base of 
the little tree center-piece; bonbons on 
pretty dishes are scattered about the table, 
and thin sandwiches made of sandwich 
bread and cold tongue are wrapped in tis- 
sue paper, tied with green ribbons and 
placed beside each plate. 

The novelties of the affair are the "tree 
leaves," which are made by rolling ordi- 
nary "cooky" dough very thin, then cut- 
ting into different shaped leaves, baking 
them, then icing them in green icing. The 
children are delighted with these and 
spend much time in guessing to what sort 
of tree they belong. 

Another pretty feature is to get animal 
crackers, ice them with chocolate, thus 
making little brown bears, horses, cows 
and even piggies. 

As souvenirs of the occasion the little 
visitors carry away tiny tree-shaped cards 
bearing the name of the little hostess and 
the date of the event. 



A MARINE SOCIAL. 

1g) IKE many other socials, the success 

®| of this one will depend largely on 
the. skill with which the members utilize 
local talent and local material. 

Arrange the room in which the social 
is to be held to look as much like a ship as 
possible; the interior of the ship decorate 
with flags and ropes, life preservers and 
other nautical properties. Swing ham- 
mocks here and there; let the light come 
from lanterns, either the ordinary ship 
lantern or Japanese lanterns. A prome- 
nade by the light of these, lanterns will be 
very pretty and pleasant. Ask the guests 
to dress in nautical costume as far as pos- 
sible — the common sailor suits with sailor 
hats for the ladies, and sailor "rigs" for 
the gentlemen. 

For refreshments introduce regular 
ship fare, that is, hard tack, canned fruits, 
biscuits, etc. At eight bells a nautical 
program may be introduced. Such songs 



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as "Larboard Watch/' "Nancy Lee," 
"The Midshipmate," "The Three Fisher- 
men/ 7 "Little Fisher Maiden/' "The 
Murmuring Sea/' "A Home by the Sea/' 
and so on may be introduced and executed 
by the jolly "tars" in true sailor choruses. 
Such recitations as "The Fisherman's 
Daughter/' "The Face Against the Pane/' 
"Drifting/' and "The Ancient Mariner" 
may be recited. 

A recent newspaper gave the following 
account of a social of this kind : 

"A large company accepted the invita- 
tion of the seamen of the Dreadnaught on 
Wednesday evening in the dog-watch, 
when the cabin and decks presented a gala 
appearance. The gallant ship (First 
Baptist Church) was easily found by the 
directions on the flyers, on 'the port side 
of Main Street, steering due north/ and 
the channel being clearly marked by the 
night signals of red and green lights, and 
the doubtful being further aided by such 
signs as 'Hard to Port/ or 'Hard to Star- 
board/ all found their way to the cabin. 
This and the mess-room were tastefully 
trimmed with flags and banners, the Stars 
and Stripes predominating; while pic- 
tures of ships, marine views, a handsome 
model of a steamer, coils of rope, the able 
seaman in oil suit and tarpaulin, who, 
with his lantern, appeared frequently, 
signs like 'No Smoking on the Quarter 
Deck/ and the marking of the hours by 
bells, helped to make very real the sem- 
blance of life aboard ship. 

"When the jolly tars appeared in the 
mess-room at four bells the gang-chain 
between that and the cabin was let down 
and the tables were soon filled with a com- 
pany curious to find out what ship fare 
was like; to test the pea soup and hard- 
tack, and to order with some uncertainty 
the plum duff and gravy. The sailors 
wore dressed in blue shirts and trowsers, 
with sailor collars and ties, and jaunty 
caps with the name of the vessel on the 
front, and deftly served the guests of the 
evening. Each table had its decoration of 
sea weed, and each was supplied with 



dainty bills of fare in the shape of scallop 
shells, tied with green ribbon, and taste- 
fully painted in appropriate designs. 

"At eight o'clock all went below, and a 
very attractive program was rendered. A 
chorus of sixteen voices of the crew ren- 
dered sailor songs with much spirit." 



A FLORAL LOVE TALE. 

"H|ISTKIBUTE among the members of 
tjjr the society slips of paper containing 
the following puzzle. Each of the twenty 
questions must be answered by the name 
of a flower, and the social committee will 
give due honor to the member whose list 
is most complete and accurate. 

A FLORAL LOVE TALE. 

1 — The maiden's name and color of her 

hair. 
2 — An adjective that suited her, and her 

brother's name. 
3 — His favorite sport in winter. 
4 — His favorite musical instrument. 
5 — The hour he awakened his father 

playing upon it. 
6 — What his father gave him in punish- 
ment for it. 
7 — What this made the boy do. 
8 — The name of his sister's young man 

and what he wrote it with. 
9 — What he, being single, often lost. 
10 — What candies did he bring to Mary ? 
11 — What did he do when he popped the, 

question one fall day? 
12 — What ghastly trophy did he offer her ? 
13 — What did she say to him as he knelt 

before her ? 
14 — What flowers did she give him ? 
15 — To whom did she. refer him? 
16 — What minister married them ? 
17 — What did John say when leaving her 

one day ? 
18 — What was she during his absence? 
19 — What fragrant letter did he send her ? 
20 — What shall we wish for them in con- 
clusion ? 



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The solution of the enigmas is the fol- 
lowing : 

1 — Marigold. 

2 — Sweet William. 

3— Snowball. 

1 — Trumpet. 

5 — Four o'clock. 

6 — Goldenrod. 

7: — Hops. 

8 — Jonquil (John-quill). 

9 — bachelor's button. 
1 — Buttercups. 
11— Aster. 
1 2 — Bleeding-heart. 
13 — Johnny- jump-up. 
11- — Tulips (two lips). 
15 — Poppy, or old man. 
16 — Jack in the pulpit. 
1 7 — Forget-me-not. 
1 8 — Mourning bride. 
19— Sweet P. 
2 — Live-f or-ever. 



f 



CHRISTMAS SOCIALS. 

F a society is bent on celebrating 
Christmas according to the authentic 
fashion, let the merriest lad of all be 
appointed to the ancient office of "Lord 
of Misrule" or "Master of Merry Dis- 
ports," or, as the Scotch called him, "The 
Abbot of Unreason." After the old-time 
fashion, this merry monarch may inaugu- 
rate his reign by turning with his magic 
power all the company to children, ab- 
solving them of all their wisdom, and bid- 
ding them be just wise enough to make 
fools of themselves. 

Under the sway of the Lord of Misrule, 
the orthodox Christmas games may be 
played. "Blind man's buff" is one of 
these, "puss in corner," and charades. 
Another is "questions and commands," 
whose leader may ask any proper question, 
or command any possible feat, imposing 
as a penalty for failure to answer or com- 
ply the blackening of the face, or the pay- 
ment of a forfeit. 

Snapdragon is another Christmas sport 



having a smack of the adventurous. Rais- 
ins are placed in a large shallow dish, and 
brandy or some other spirit is poured over 
the fruit and ignited. The lights in the 
room are extinguished, and in the weird 
glare the players attempt to pick the rais- 
ins out of the flaming dish. 

"Here he comes with flaming bowl, 
Doesn't he mean to take his toll? 

Snip ! Snap ! Dragon ! 
Take care you don't take too much, 
Be not greedy in your clutch, 

Snip ! Snap ! Dragon !" 

Some of the beautiful old Christmas 
carols may be sung by a company of sing- 
ers attired in old-time fashion. You may 
have a Yule log, or, at least, you may 
have a Devonshire Yule fagot — a bundle 
of ash-sticks, hooped around with nine 
bands, from the, same tree ; just nine, ob- 
serve, no more, no less. You may have a 
great Yule candle. In ancient times they 
were large enough to last through the en- 
tire twelve nights of Christmas. Finally, 
and most important of all ( ?), you may 
hang up a bit of mystic mistletoe ! 



WEIGHTS AND AGES. 

RRAXGE in a row the young wo- 
men, and the young men in a row 
fronting them, having, if possible, an 
equal number on each side, unless some 
young man takes the place of a young 
woman, or vice versa. 

Each young man must now write upon 
his card first his own age; second, his 
guess as to the correct weight of the young 
woman who faces him ; and third, his 
estimate of the combined weight of all the 
young women on the opposite side. Each 
young woman must write on her slip her 
guess as to the age of the young man fac- 
ing her, her own weight, and her estimate 
of the combined age of the opposite side. 
Five minutes are given in which to make 
the guesses. 



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The slips are then taken up, two or 
more persons being selected for this pur- 
pose. These tellers find the sum of the 
ages and of the weights, and of the guesses 
as to each. The side which wins is the 
one whose guesses, added together, ap- 
proach most nearly the truth. The young- 
man who guesses the nearest the combined 
ages of the young women, and the young 
woman who guesses most nearly the com- 
bined weights of the other side, also re- 
ceive honorable mention, while those 
whose guesses are farthest removed from 
the truth may also be named, together with 
the estimates. 



A POETICAL SOCIAL. 

E" interesting game is based on poeti- 
cal descriptions of famous persons. 
A large number of these are copied from 
well-known writers. Each is placed at 
the bottom of a slip of paper. The players 
begin at the top of the slip, and write, in 
turn, the names of the persons supposed 
to be described by the quotations, turning 
the, paper over so as to hide what each has 
written from the one to whom he passes 
it. For example, a recent party wrestled 
with this from Tennyson : 

"A thousand claims to reverence closed 
In her as mother, wife, and queen." 

This, of course, referred to Queen Vic- 
toria, but one jocose player guessed that it 
referred to Liliuokalani. 

Again, another quotation was used from 
Lowell : 

"The. kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing 
man, 
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not 

blame, 
New birth of our new soil, the first 
American." 

This referred, of course, to Abraham 
Lincoln, but a few of the players got it 
George Washington. 

Here, are a few more samples: 



"I need not praise the sweetness of his 
song 
Where limpid verse to limpid verse suc- 
ceeds 
Smooth as our Charles." 

[Referring to Longfellow.] 

"This laurel, greener from the brows 
Of him that uttered nothing base." 

[Tennyson on Wordswgrth.] 

"Westward still points the inexorable 
soul." [Columbus.] 

"He seems to me 
Scarce other than my own ideal knight, 
Who reverenced his conscience as his king ; 
Whose glory was redressing human wrong ; 
Who spoke no slander, no, nor listened to 

it; 
Who loved one only, and who clave to her." 

[Prince Albert.] 

"The man of amplest influence, 
Yet clearest of ambitious crime, 
Our greatest yet with least pretence, 
Great in council and great in war, 
Foremost captain of his time, 
Rich in saving common sense, 
And, as the greatest only are, 
In his simplicity sublime." 

[Wellington.] 

" . . . The first warbler, whose sweet 
breath 
Preluded those melodious bursts that fill 
The spacious times of great Elizabeth 
With sounds that echo still." 

[Chaucer.] 

"In a small chamber, friendless and un- 
seen, 
Toiled o'er his types one poor, unlearned 

young man ; 
The place was dark, unfurnitured, and 

mean ; — 
Yet there the freedom of a race began." 

[Garrison.] 



DOUBLETS. 



13. 



AN ELECTRIC SOCIAL. 

VEEY person of intelligence is inter- 
ested in the growing marvels of elec- 
tricity, and the subtle fluid has so perme- 
ated modern life that in every town is 
to be found at least one electrician, with 
some sort of electrical apparatus — tele- 
graph, telephone, electric light, or electric 
car. The school teachers also can help you 
out with apparatus and explanations. 

Collect everything bearing upon elec- 
tricity you can find. Especially provide 
yourselves with strong batteries, and place, 
these in full view of the audience. If you 
can get different kinds of batteries and 
some one to explain their difference, so 
much the better. A machine for the de- 
velopment of frictional electricity, some 
Ley den jars, Crookes tubes, and the like, 
will be of great interest. A telegraph in- 
strument with an operator may most easi- 
ly be procured. Kun the lines around the 
room, and use, if you can, the regular in- 
sulators and poles. 

Select the wag of your society to manip- 
ulate the instrument — and it makes no 
difference, for the nonce, whether he 
understands telegraphy or not. He is to 
pretend to receive messages which are sent 
him by some one outside. These messages 
he will write out upon regular telegraph 
blanks, deliver them to an attendant, who 
is dressed as a district messenger boy, and 
who will hand them to the proper persons. 
These are expected to read them aloud at 
once, and, if they are carefully prepared, 
they will add much to the pleasure of the 
evening. 

This performance may be arranged to 
enliven the more serious portions of the 
program, which will consist of talks upon 
different phases of electricity and of elec- 
trical engineering, and upon the various 
instruments you may have on exhibition. 
Of course one of the most exciting mo- 
ments of the evening will be brought about 
by a shock administered to all who will 
join hands. 



UNITED STATES MAIL. 

►LACE the chairs at equal distances, 
and in each a player. These players 
choose, the names of cities of the United 
States, and the leader, who must have a 



good memory, will 



begin 



the game by 
calling out, for instance, "Buffalo and 
San Francisco." These two cities will 
now change places, and if the leader can 
possess himself of either vacant seat in the 
course of the exchange, the person thus 
ousted must be leader in his turn. When 
the leader calls "General Delivery," every 
one must move to some new seat, and the 
person that is left without a seat is the 
new leader. 

The. old game of stage-coach is played 
in much the same way, except that differ- 
ent parts of the stage-coach and its various 
passengers, the horses, and so on, are se- 
lected by the players, and the leader must 
improvise a story introducing as many of 
these names as possible. As the name of 
each player is introduced, he must rise 
and whirl around, resuming his seat. When 
the leader says "Stage-coach," the whole 
company must go through this perform- 
ance, and when the climax of a break- 
down is reached, all change places, and in 
the melee the story-teller finds a chair, 
thus forcing a new story-teller to the front. 



DOUBLETS. 



HIS game was invented by that witty 
Englishman, Lewis Carroll, one of 
whose problems was this : Change "head" 
to "tail" in five moves. With each move 
one. letter of the original word may be 
dropped, and another letter substituted in 
the same place to make a new word, the 
successive moves culminating in the word 
"tail." Eor example: 
head, 

heal, 

teal, 

tell, 

tall, 

tail. 



I3G 



OLD MAIDS' REPA1B-8H0P. 



You may divide the company into sets, 
and propose some such doublet as that for 
their solution, the side first solving it hav- 
ing the privilege of drawing one player 
from the opposite side, the process continu- 
ing until one side or the other loses heart 
or all of its players. A similar game may 
be based on any sort of word puzzle. 



EVERYTHING FROM A NUTSHELL. 

SELL during the. evening all kinds of 
nuts, whole or cracked, as well as 
various kinds of nut-cake, hickory-nut, 
walnut, almond, cocoanut, and so on. 
Salted almonds, drinks made from cocoa, 
and other eatables and drinkables, may be 
had, and there may be sold also various 
little articles made from nuts, such as 
thimble cases contrived from English wal- 
nuts cut in halves, gilded, neatly lined 
with silk, and tied together with silk cords. 
Acorns gilded and glued together can also 
be fashioned into articles of usefulness or 
adornment. 

For the evening's entertainment cut pea- 
nuts in two, remove the kernel, and write 
upon tissue paper various directions for 
the players. Place the paper inside the 
halves of the shells, and tie them together. 
Get as many as will to accept these, prom- 
ising to endeavor, at least, to accomplish 
the orders contained therein. One, on 
opening his, will find himself required to 
recite a comic poem; another, to sing a 
duet with a third ; another, to impersonate 
Hamlet; another, to repeat the alphabet 
backwards, and so on. 



THE KEY TO CHARACTER. 

fAKE a common door-key and give, it 
to one of the members, at the same 
time whispering to him and telling him 
to give it to someone else of the company 
who possesses a certain characteristic. 
Haying made selection, this player hands 
it to a second player, whispering in his 
ear instructions that he is to hand the key 
to someone else in the company possessing 



another kind of qualification; and so the 
key goes around until a large number have 
received it. 

Then each one speaks in turn, the first 
player saying, for example, "I gave this 
key to Mr. A, and told him to give it to 
the wittiest person in the room." Mr. A 
says, "I gave this key to Miss B, and told 
her to give it to the greatest mimic in 
the room." Miss B says, "I gave this key 
to Mr. C, and told him to give, it to the 
person who was to become a great orator ;" 
and so it goes. Of course, the fun lies in 
the appropriateness or absurdity of the 
choice made to fit each requirement. In a 
company of Endeavorers there will, of 
course, be no fear that any ill-natured 
hits will be made, or that anything will 
occur to wound the feelings of any player. 



OLD MAIDS' REPAIR-SHOP. 

'HIS is a pretty little pantomime, 
which may be used to introduce a 
social, or to fill up some interval. Thir- 
teen old maids march in along one end of 
the room, their faces all wrinkled ; and 
they are dressed in all kinds of queer ways. 
They grieve over their ugliness, and wring 
their hands in despair. Their actions may 
be interpreted by some Endeavorer in a 
bright little speech, or, if any one of the 
society is sufficiently skilled, a short song 
may be written for them to sing. 

On one side of the room is a curtain, 
from which projects a crank. While the 
old maids are bemoaning their fate, the 
proprietor comes out*and hangs up a sign 
reading, "Old Maids' Kepair-Shop." This 
sign the old maids see with great rejoicing. 
One at a time approaches the curtain, is 
received by the proprietor, and ushered in. 
He comes out, gives a few turns to the 
crank, and forth steps a beautiful young 
girl, who walks off with great rejoicing, 
evidently envied by the other old maids, 
each of whom in turn submits to the same 
transformation. The last old maid so taxes 
the machine that it breaks with a loud 
noise. 




LITTEE BO-PEEP. 

"I'm little Bo-Peep, I've lost my sheep, 
And don't know where to find them." 

("Mother Goose Social." See page 67.) 





CUPID. 

(For "Children's Valentine Party" see page 70.) 



TWO PICTURES FROM LIFE. 



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GERMAN SOCIALS. 

IHE German social is, in every par- 
ticular, like the better-known Scotch 
social. If lunch is served the waiters are 
dressed as Germans. The guests, as they 
enter, are to be received by young maid- 
ens and old ladies dressed in German at- 
tire, and using German phrases with as 
great freedom as they can. 

The program of the evening consists of 
recitations and songs in the German lan- 
guage, together with talks or essays about 
great Germans, and recitations of some 
German poems translated into English. 
Pictures of German authors and composers 
may adorn the walls. The instrumental 
music should also be by Germans. The 
refreshments that are served should par- 



take as largely as possible, of the same 
national flavor. 



A "DO THINGS CLUB." 

^K^HY not have a "Do Things Club" 
| y^ y [ n y 0ur school ? There is a church 
in Chicago that has a "Do Things Club," 
into which they get the young people from 
fourteen upwards. The only condition is 
that every member shall have something 
on his hands to do with a purpose, that 
is worth doing. It may be for his own 
special and unusual improvement, it may 
be for the church or Sunday school, it may 
be some special thing for father or mother, 
but it is often for the poor, the sick, the 
neglected. Every member of the club 
must "do things" worth while regularly. 



PLEASANT STORIES FOR STORMY SUNDAYS 



Realizing how difficult a task it is to 
interest a child on a rainy day, especially 
a rainy Sunday, we have compiled the fol- 
lowing stories for these especial days. 
These stories will be found helpful for the 
Sunday-school teacher and the Junior 
society leader also : 




AS A LITTLE CHILD. 

WO little brothers of three and four 
were standing by their mother, look- 
ing out of the drawing-room window at a 
beautiful sunset. Even while they looked 
its loveliness began to fade ; when one lit- 
tle curly golden head was suddenly 
bowed, and an earnest whisper came, 
"Please God, let it stay a long time !" 

Later the same evening, the tiring boy 
of three was lisping his prayers at his 
mother's knee, when a new clause was 
added : 

"Thanh y oo, hind God, for that bootiful 
red sunset !" 

More than one practical lesson is sug- 
gested by this simple little incident. Are 
we at all times in a receptive mood to 



recognize with glad appreciation the. good 
things of God when they come to us ; and, 
while rejoicing in the gift, to remember 
the beneficent Giver from whom we re- 
ceive it? — Sel. 



TWO PICTURES FROM LITE. 

I. 

BLACK-EYED baby lay moaning 
its young life away on the brick 
bed of a dreary mud house in Pekin, 
China. 

The feeble voice, growing weaker and 
weaker, was now and then drowned in the 
sobs and groans of the young mother, who 
gazed in despair upon her dying child. 
She longed to press it to her aching heart, 
but she had always heard that demons are 
all around the dying, waiting to snatch 
the soul away, and so because it was dying- 
she was afraid of her own baby. 

"It is almost time," said the mother-in- 
law, glancing at the slanting sunbeam 
that had stolen into the dismal room 
through a hole in the paper window; and 



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TWO PICTURES FROM LIFE. 



she snatched up the helpless baby with a 
determined air. The mother shrieked, 
"My baby is not dead yet ! My baby is not 
dead yet !" 

"But it has only one mouthful of breath 
left," said the old woman ; "the cart will 
soon pass, and then we shall have to keep 
it in the house all night. There is no 
help for it ; the gods are angry with you." 

The mother dared not resist, and her 
baby was carried from her sight. She 
never saw it again. 

An old black cart drawn by a black cow 
passed slowly down the street; the little 
body was laid among the others already 
gathered there, and the carter drove on 
through the city gate. Outside the city 
wall he laid them all in a common pit, 
buried them in lime, and drove on. 

No stone marks the spot ; no flowers will 
ever bloom on that grave. 

The desolate woman wails, "My baby is 
lost; my baby is lost; I can never find 
him again." 

•The black-eyed baby's mother is a 
heathen. 

II. 

A blue-eyed baby lay moaning on the 
downy pillows of its dainty crib, and it 
was whispered softly through the mission 
"Baby is dying." 

With sorrowing hearts we gathered in 
the stricken room, but the Comforter had 
come before us. 

"Our baby is going home," said the 
mother, and, though her voice trembled, 
«ho smiled bravely and sweetly upon the. 
little sufferer. 

"We gave her to the Lord when she 
came to us. He has but come for His 
own," said the father reverently, as he 
threw his arms lovingly around his wife. 

As we watched through our tears the 
little life, slipping away, some one began 
to sing softly : 

"Jesus, lover of my soul, 
Let me to Thy bosom fly/' 



The blue eyes opened for the last time, 
and with one long gaze into the loving 
faces above, closed again, and with a gen- 
tle sigh the sweet child passed in through 
the gate to the heavenly fold. 

"Let us pray," said a low voice. We 
knelt together, and heaven came so near 
we could almost see the white-robed ones 
and hear their songs of welcome. 

There are no baby coffins to be bought 
in Pekin, so a box was made ; we lined it 
with soft white silk from a Chinese store. 
We dressed baby in her snowy robes and 
laid her lovingly in her last resting place. 
We decked the room with flowers, and 
strewed them over the little one. 

The next day we followed the tiny cof- 
fin to the cemetery. 

With a song of hope and words of cheer 
and trust, and a prayer of faith, we com- 
forted the sorrowing hearts. 

Now a white stone marks the sacred 
spot where we laid her, and flowers blos- 
som on the grave that is visited often and 
tended with loving care. 

"The Lord gave, and the Lord hath 
taken away ; blessed be the name of the 
Lord," says the baby's father, while baby's 
mother answers, "Our baby is safe; we 
shall find her and have her, some glad 
day." 

The blue-eyed baby's mother is a Chris- 
tian. — Gospel in All Lands. 



A MISSIONARY STORY. 

SUNDAY SCHOOL missionary 
in the west was visiting a friend's 
house. He had collected the family about 
him, and with a map spread out on the. 
floor was showing where he had organized 
Sunday schools, and was explaining his 
work to a deeply interested circle of hear- 
ers. Among them was little Helen, the 
four-year-old sunshine, of the home, who 
was nestled up under his arm, listening 
with the others. "Here is a place," said 
the missionary, a shadow falling on his 
genial face, "where the people want a 



MY DOG PADDY. 



139 



Sunday school. They are begging hard 
for it, but they must wait. The money 
does not hold out." Soon after little Helen 
slipped out of his arms and ran away. In 
a few minutes she came back, and stretch- 
ing her small arm across the map, laid a 
bright gold dollar on the spot on the map 
where the school was wanted. "There," 
she said with satisfaction, "that's all I've 
got. That's for their Sunday school. Can 
they have a school now ? Is that enough ?" 

It was enough. The missionary took 
it with him and preached from it, and it 
proved a powerful text, for as he told of 
the little girl's gift it touched many a 
heart, and moved many others to give. 
Those poor, poor people in the west had 
their Sunday school, besides many others 
were helped, and it came from the cheer- 
ful gift of a little, girl, only four years old. 

Jesus not only wants children to give 
their money for His cause but He wants 
them to give themselves. He says to .every 
boy and girl, "My child, give Me thy 
heart." If we give Him our heart, then 
we will cheerfully give Him everything 
else. 



BOYS AND GIRLS IN KOREA. 

DERHAPS you would like to know 
how the boys and girls of Korea 
look, and what kind of clothes they wear. 
I am sure if a company of Korean boys 
were to visit your school your teacher 
would make a mistake and assign them 
seats on the girls' side of the room, in- 
stead of the boys' side. If they were, very 
much dressed up, some of them would 
have on long pink coats, others would have 
robin's egg blue, while the smaller ones 
would wear red. 

The. dress of the Korean girl is not as 
pretty as the garments worn by her 
brother. They usually wear red cotton 
skirts; occasionally, however, they are so 
fortunate as to get a light blue or a delicate 
green one. Their jackets, which are very 
short, only just long enough from the 



shoulder to form an armhole, are of vari- 
ous colors, but the color they like the best 
is either green or yellow. Their hair is 
combed just like the boys' only they wear 
a plum-colored ribbon instead of a black 
one. 

When our little Korean reaches the age 
of nine or ten, her parents tell her she is 
now too old to be seen on the streets any 
more. She can't even stand at the front 
door and look out, but is banished to the 
apartments of the women, which are in 
the back part of the house. Here the 
rooms are dingy and little. There is no 
pretty flower garden to look out upon, no 
dolls to play with, and not much of any- 
thing which is bright or beautiful ever 
enters the rooms where our little Korean 
girl must spend her life. 

Are you not glad you were born in this 
land ? Are you not sorry for those whose 
lots are so hard ? We hope there will be 
better days for them some time, but these 
days will not come until their fathers and 
mothers learn about Jesus, who said He 
came to this w T orld "To preach deliverance 
to the captives." — 8 el. 




MY DOG PADDY. 

>OULD you like to hear of my dog 
Paddy % Then just listen to this. 

Every night and morning we have fam- 
ily prayers, as I dare say you do, and we 
all sit about the room while my father 
reads the verses from the Bible, and then 
we kneel to pray. 

Well, Paddy took to coming in to pray- 
ers, and after a few days he seemed to 
think that he ought to take his part in 
them. So one day, when the servants had 
come in and taken their places, Mr. Paddy 
jumped on a chair and sat down, with 
his funny black nose stuck in the air, as 
much as to say, "I am just as good as 
you are." 

This very nearly made us laugh; but 
what was our surprise, when kneeling 



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BUFFALO BILL AND THE CHILDREN. 



down, to see Paddy turn round in his 
chair, with his face to the back, place 
his paws on the top, and bury his nose in 
them! This he now does every day, and 
very solemnly. Do you not think that we 
(who know what we are doing) might 
learn a lesson from this animal, who only 
copies what he sees others do \ 

Perhaps the next time you are tempted 
to laugh in church or at family prayers, 
you will think of Paddy and how good he 
is. — Bertha Goldie in Lutheran Observer. 



Two little girls who had been playing 
disagreed. The youngest suddenly said, 
in real mamma tones: 

"Birdie, I want you to understand Fse 
just like my muzzer ; when I speaks I'se 
going to be minded." And the quarrel 
ceased at once. 



"Are you in pain, my little man V 9 asked 
the kind old gentleman. 

"No," answered the boy, "the pain's in 
Indianapolis Journal. 



me. 



FRESH AIR FOR FOOD. 

T one of the country excursions a 
poor woman presented herself and 
her two little children without a lunch, 
which all had been directed to prepare. 
The fact that she had hardly clothes 
enough to cover her body and that her face 
and form were greatly emaciated, told the 
story of appalling poverty and explained 
the absence of lunch. 

"Why, what are you going to eat V 9 said 
the deaconess. 

"Oh ! the fresh air will do me for food," 
was the, reply. "It has been fourteen 
years since I have seen the country." This 
poor creature was not only supplied with a 
substantial lunch but was given clothes 
and some concentrated food to take home 
for her own use. 



BUFFALO BILL AND THE CHILDREN. 

fN the Boston Children's Hospital two 
summers ago, on one of the hot June 
days, when all the little convalescents who 
were able always crowded about the open 
windows, it chanced that a horseback band 
of Buffalo Bill's warriors passed by on 
their way to the show grounds. 

The wildest excitement immediately 
took possession of the small invalids. Those 
who could see eagerly ran and described 
the procession to those who could not leave 
their cots. 

A little later one wee lad, bed-ridden by 
spinal trouble, was discovered crying bit- 
terly on account of the lost treat. A kind 
nurse endeavored to soothe him; and, 
trying to plan some little occupation that 
would divert him from his grief, she told 
him that he might write to Col. Cody, the 
great "Buffalo Bill" himself, and ask him 
for a real Indian's picture. 

No sooner said than begun. A simple 
little letter was sent, telling how he could 
not see the Indians when they went by 
the hospital, and how he wished he had 
a photograph of one of the band ; but the 
long day passed, and brought no answer to 
the weary, waiting little fellow. 

"Col. Cody must be a very busy man," 
said the sympathetic nurse, for the twen- 
tieth time, on the. second morning. "We 
must wait patiently." But, even while 
she was speaking, the ward door opened; 
and in came a six-foot Indian, painted and 
wrapped in a scarlet blanket, wearing a 
cap of tall waving feathers and leather 
trowsers and carrying his bow in his hand. 

The little invalids fairly gasped. Then 
they shrieked out with delight, as, one by 
one, silent and noiseless, but smiling, six 
splendid warriors followed the first. 

That made seven in all ; and, like a 
well-trained regiment, they drew up in a 
line, and gravely saluted the nurse. The 
poor woman was too much scared to speak. 
But the children still continued to scream 
their pleasure. 

The strange visitors had evidently re- 



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141 



ceived explicit orders; for now they ar- 
ranged themselves, as best they could, in 
the narrow space between the two rows of 
little beds, laid their blankets and bows 
on the floor, Avaved their arms to and fro, 
and proceeded to give a quiet war dance ! 
Then they sang ! And then they fought a 
sham battle, smiling all the. while ! When 
at last they went away, a heartfelt cheer 
followed them down the broad corridor; 
and the happy children in the hospital 
talked about shows and Buffalo Bill for 
weeks after. — Mary Boyle O'Reilly. 



HIS SCHEME. 



SMALL boy who is not familiar 
with rural ways was taken by his 
fond mamma for a brief stay in the coun- 
try. 

On a farm in a neighboring county he 
waxed fat and sunburnt, and picked up 
a wondrous store of astonishing experi- 
ences. 

One day the farmer smilingly said to 
his mother: 

"Just ask your boy what he hid two 
eggs in the stable for ?" 

So the very first opportunity the mother 
said to the six-year-old: 

"My dear, what did you do with those 
eggs you took from the hen house ?" 

"Oh," replied the boy, "I didn't want 
you to know about it." 

"Why, that's all right," said mamma. 
"I only want to know what my boy did 
with them." 

"I hid them in the stable," said the lit- 
tle fellow. 

"And what for ?" 

"Cause it's my scheme." 

"Your scheme ? And what is your 
scheme ?" 

"Why, you see, mamma," said the little 
philosopher, "when eggs is borned in a 
chicken house they is always little chick- 
ens, an ? I fink if they was borned in a 
stable dey might be little horses !" — Cleve- 
land Plaindealer. 



OLE BULL. 

LE BULL when a child only four 
years old dearly loved music, and 
used often to fancy when walking alone 
in the meadows that Nature was singing to 
him while the swinging bluebells and 
grasses beat the time. 

His uncle brought him a little yellow 
violin. Ole danced with joy and kissed 
the precious instrument and played on it 
every day when study hours were over. 

His eighth birthday brought him a larg- 
er red violin ! Who could think of sleeping 
with such a treasure under the same roof i 
Almost before he knew it he was out of bed 
in his nightdress peeping at the red wood 
and smiling at the. pretty pearl screws. 

Hear the rest of the story in his own 
words : "I took up the bow and looked at 
it. ... I did try it just a very little 
and it did sing to one so sweetly. At first 
I did play very soft, but presently . . . 
it did go ever louder and louder. I forgot 
that it was midnight and everybody was 
asleep. 

"Presently I heard something crack! 
and the next moment I felt my father's 
whip across my shoulders. My little red 
violin dropped on the floor and was broken. 
I wept much for it but it never recovered 
its health." 



HER GIFT. 



I HE minister's eyes swept with in- 
tense searching the apathetic faces 
of his stylish, worldly congregation. He 
had made an impassioned appeal for help 
in the support of a little mission church 
up among the mountains — a section where 
rough men and women knew scarcely any- 
thing of God and the religion of Christ. 
He had hoped to inspire the people with 
the spirit of giving, to make them feel that 
it was a sweet, blessed privilege, and — he 
had failed. A sense of deep desolation 
crept over him. 

"God help me," his lips murmured 



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A STREAK OF SUNSHINE. 



mutely. He could not see the bent figure 
of little crippled Maggie in the rear of the 
church — a figure that was trembling un- 
der the fire of his appeal. 

"Lord. Jesus," the little one was saying, 
brokenly, "I ain't got notin' ter give. I 
want the people in the mountains to hear 
about my Saviour, Lord, I ain't got 
nothin' ter — " 

What was it that made the child catch 
her breath as though a cold hand had 
taken hold of her heart? Yes, you have, 
Maggie," whispered a voice from some- 
where; "you've got your crutch, your 
beautiful crutch that was given ter you, 
and is worth a lot of shinin' dollars. You 
kin give up your best frien' what helps 
you to git into the park where the birds 
sing, and takes you to preachin' and makes 
your life happy." 

"Oh, no, Lord," sobbed the' child, chok- 
ing and shivering. "Yes, yes, I will ! He 
gave more'n that for me." 

Blindly she extended the polished 
crutch and placed it in the hands of the 
deacon, who was taking up the scanty col- 
lection. For a moment the, man was puz- 
zled, then, comprehending her meaning, 
he carried her crutch to the front of the 
church, and laid it on the table in front 
of the old pulpit. The minister stepped 
down from the platform and held up the 
crutch with trembling hands. The sub- 
limity of the renunciation unnerved him 
so that he could not speak for a moment. 

"Do you see it, my people," he fal- 
tered at last, "little crippled Maggie's 
crutch — all that she had to make life com- 
fortable % She has given it to the Lord and 
you—" 

There was a moment of silence. The 
people flushed, and moved restlessly in 
their cushioned pews. 

"Does anyone want to contribute to 
the mission cause the amount of money 
111 is crutch would bring, and give it back 
to the child who is so helpless without it?" 
the minister asked, gravely. 

"Fifty dollars," came in husky tones 
from the banker. 



"Twenty-five." 

"One hundred." 

And so the subscribing went on, until 
papers equivalent to six hundred dollars 
were lightly piled over the crutch on the 
table. 

"Ah! you have found your hearts. 
Thank God! Let us receive the benedic- 
tion," almost whispered the minister, as 
he suddenly extended his hands, which 
were trembling with emotion. Little Mag- 
gie, absorbed in the magnitude of her of- 
fering and the love that prompted it, con- 
prehended nothing that had taken place. 
She had no thought for the future, of how 
she would reach her humble home, or of 
the days in which she would sit helpless in 
her chair, as she had once done. Christ 
had demanded her all, and she had given 
it with the blind faith of an Abraham. 
She understood no better when a woman's 
arm drew her into close embrace, and soft 
lips whispered in her ear, "Maggie, dear, 
your crutch has made six hundred dol- 
lars for the mission church among the 
mountains, and has come back to stay with 
you again. Take it, little one." 

Like a flash of light there came a con- 
sciousness that in some mysterious way 
her gift had been accepted of God and 
returned to her, and with a cry of joy she 
caught the beloved crutch to her lonely 
heart, then, smiling through her tears at 
the kind faces and reverential eyes, she 
hobbled out of the sanctuary. — Bel. 




A STKEAK OF SUNSHINE. 

ELL, grandma," said a little 
boy resting his elbow on the 
old lady's stuffed arm chair, "what have 
you been doing all day all by yourself at 
the window ?" 

"All I could," cheerfully answered 
grandma; "I have read a little, and 
prayed a good deal, and then looked at 
the people. There is one little girl I have 
learned to watch for rather. She has sun- 
ny brown hair, her brown eyes have the 



WILLIAM AND THE PINK-MAN. 



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same sunny look in them, and I wonder 
every day what makes her look so bright. 
Oh, here she comes now." 

"That girl with the brown apron on ?" 
he cried. "Why, I know her. That's Su- 
sie Moore, and she has a dreadful hard 
time, grandma." 

"Has she ?" said grandma. "Oh ! little, 
boy, wouldn't you give anything to know 
where she gets all that brightness from, 
then?" 

"I'll ask her," and to grandma's sur- 
prise, he lifted the window and called 
Susie. "Oh, Susie, come up here a min- 
ute, grandma wants to see you." 

The. brown eyes opened wide in surprise, 
but the little maid turned at once and 
came in. "Grandma wants to know, Susie 
Moore," said the boy, "what makes you 
look so bright all the time !" 

"Why, I have to," said Susie, "you see 
papa has been sick a long while, and mam- 
ma's tired out with nursing, and baby is 
cross with teething, and if I didn't be 
bright, who would be ?" 

"Yes, yes, I see," said dear old grand- 
ma, putting her arms around this streak 
of sunshine, "that's God's reason for 
things; they are because somebody needs 
them. Shine on, little, sun." There could 
not be a better reason for shining than 
because it is dark at home." — The Sun- 
beam. 



WILLIAM AND THE PINK-MAN. 

OW, W T illiam," said his mother, as 
she tied his necktie, "I want you to 
go over to Mrs. Jones' and ask her to lend 
me her Mrs. Potts' sad-iron till tomorrow. 
And be sure to come right back; don't 
loiter." 

"Yes, ma'am," said William. 

That was at half -past seven. Mrs. Jones 
lived half a mile down the road, but at 
eight o'clock William had not got half way. 
He stopped at the brook to throw stones at 
a frog, and then, when the frog got tired 
and refused to play, William took a stick 
and dabbled in the water. William was 



the sort of boy who never gets anywhere 
on time. He never got up to breakfast; 
he was often late to school, and when his 
mother sent him on an errand she could 
never tell when he would get back. 

He was poking in the mud and had for- 
gotten all about Mrs. Jones, when he saw 
something coming down the bank toward 
him. When the thing got quite close he 
discovered that it was a little man — a man 
about as high as a boy's knee. He wore 
knickerbockers and a cap ; but the fun- 
niest thing about him was that from the 
crown of his head to the bottom of his shoes 
he was a light pink. His clothes were 
pink; his face was pink; his hair and 
eyes were pink. He stopped in front of 
William and looked him over. 

"Good-morning, Mr. Pink-man!" said 
William; but the man said nothing, he 
only winked. 

When he did this he was very laugh- 
able ; but William did not laugh, being a 
well-brought-up boy whose only fault was 
that he would loiter. 

"If you don't mind my asking," said 
he, politely, "I should like to know who 
you are." 

The Pink-man winked again. "I'm the 
man who lives in the ground, and who 
used to carry food to the big elm-tree over 
in your pasture," said he, dolefully. 

"It died last summer," sard William. 

The Pink-man nodded. "I started for 
it one day with a basket of food; but I 
stopped to play marbles with the man who 
looks after the apple-tree in Jones' gar- 
den." 

"That's dead, too," said William. 

The Pink-man nodded again. "We got 
there too late, and both trees died. When 
people have anything to do they should 
do it." Here he winked again, and Wil- 
liam remembered Mrs. Jones and the sad- 
iron. 

"We both turned pink," went on the 
little man, "and now I look after the boys 
who are late to school and who don't get 
up to breakfast." 

William shifted uneasily and dropped 



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THE TEST OF GREATNESS. 



his stick. At this the Pink-man gave a 
prodigious wink, and William had a queer 
feeling about his middle. He looked down ; 
he was turning pink himself. 

"I'm very sorry," said the Pink-man, 
"but I can't help it," and he winked again. 

William jumped up. The pink had got 
up to his second waist-coat button. His 
hair rose up on his head. What would his 
mother say ? 

"If it once gets over your head there's 
no help for you," said the man. "People 
who begin to get pink should reform before 
it gets the better of them." 

"Take it off!" said William. "I won't 
be late any more !" 

"Actions speak," said the man. 

"I'm going," said William. And I can 
tell you he hurried. He kept looking down 
to see where the pink was. As he neared 
Mrs. Jones' he found that it had disap- 
peared altogether, so he slowed up. "What 
a funny man!" he said. "But I'm not 
afraid of him and his old pink!" 

Just then he saw a sparrow's nest in the 
hedge, and that sent all other thoughts out 
of his head. He piled up some stones and 
stood on tiptoe to peer into the nest. He 
was quite absorbed in this when he was 
startled by a slight cough. He turned, 
and there was the Pink-man behind him 
winking away as hard as ever. 

William's hair began to rise again. He 
looked down; as high as he could see his 
body was pink. He shut one eye and 
looked at his nose ; that was getting pink, 
too. He cast one frightened glance at the 
Pink-man and fled, never stopping until he 
got to Mrs. Jones'. His feet were still 
pink, but Mrs. Jones did not notice it ; and 
by the time he got home it had entirely 
gone. All the same, William had a good 
scare. 

"I wonder what has come over Wil- 
liam?" says his mother. "He's always 
down to breakfast on time, and when I tell 
him to do a thing he does it at once." 

She does not know about the Pink-man 



who lives under the ground and who looks 
after boys who are tardy. But you and I 
do, and if I were a boy, or a girl, either, 
I should be mighty careful never to be late 
or the Pink-man might come winking after 
me. Then I should turn pink, or some 
other unpleasant thing might happen. 



THE TEST OF GREATNESS. 

F the many anecdotes handed down 
regarding General Washington, the 
following, perhaps, has been repeated most 
often. We give it to our readers as illus- 
trating the truest test of greatness — that 
of faithfully performing the duty nearest 
to them. 

After an assault in one of the campaigns 
of the war for American Independence, 
a small body of men were busy hoisting a 
heavy log to the top of the blockhouse that 
was being repaired. 

As the log swung to and fro, the voice, 
of a little man was heard encouraging the 
workers with a "Heave away! There she 
goes ! Heave ho !" 

By and by there rode past an officer in 
plain clothes, who asked the little man why 
he did not help the others. 

"Sir," was the pompous reply, "I am a 
corporal !" 

"Indeed," said the other, "I did not 
know that; I ask your pardon, Mr. Cor- 
poral." 

Dismounting without further ado, the 
officer lent a willing hand till the job was 
done. Then, wiping the honest sweat off 
his brow, he turned to the little man and 
remarked : 

"The next time, Mr. Corporal, you have 
a bit of work like that in hand, and too 
few men to do it, send for the commander- 
in-chief, and I'll come again and assist 
you." 

With which offer and rebuke, General 
Washington left the astonished corporal to 
his own reflections. 




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JOHN ALDEN AND PRISCILLA. 

"Ye are better than all the ballads 
That ever were sung or said, 
For ye are living poems 
And all the rest are dead." 

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BOOK III. 

SCHOOL DEPARTMENT. 

4* 4* ±* 



AN AUTUMN EXERCISE. 

ONG— "September Days." 
Reading of a portion of Part I, 
"Evangeline," — H. W. Longfellow. 
Song— "Harvest Song." 

Recitations — 

"The Pumpkin." — John G. Whittier. 

"Death of the Mowers."— William Cul- 
len Bryant. 

"The Corn Song." — John G. Whittier. 
Song— "On the Golden Side." 
Description — A Nutting Party. 
Reading— "The Cotter's Saturday Night." 

— Robert Burns. 
Song — "Bringing In The Sheaves." 
Recitations — 

"September." — Matthew Arnold. 

"The Broom." — Samuel Howitt. 

"November." — William Cullen Bryant. 
Reading — "Closing Scene of Little Men." 

— Louisa May Alcott. 
Song— "Those Evening Bells."— Thomas 

Moore. 
Pen-picture — Indian Summer. 
Autumn Quotations. 
Song — "The Last Rose of Summer." — 

Thomas Moore. 
Recitations — 

"Nothing But Leaves." — Anon. 

"In the Barn." — Jeremy Taylor. 

"Farmer John." — J. T. Trowbridge. 
Song — "Don't Leave the Farm, Boys." 

QUOTATIONS. 

"Down on the Merrimac river, 

While the autumn grass is green, 



Oh, there the jolly haymen 

In their gundalows are seen." 

— Lunt. 

"And still that harvest song rolled on, till 
even 
Looked wanly forth from night's en- 
circling bars — 
When, like a pearl of music, lost in 
heaven, 
Its sweetness melted in a sea of stars." 
— Paul H. Hayne. 

"Among the stubbled corn 
The blithe quail pipes at morn." 

— Matthew Arnold. 

"Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 
Their furrows oft the. stubborn glebe 
has broke; 
How jocund did they drive their team 
afield ! 
How bowed the woods beneath their 
sturdy stroke." 

— Thomas Gmy. 

"The chestnuts shine through the cloven 
rind, 
And the woodland leaves are. red, my 
dear; 
The scarlet fuchsias burn in the wind — 
Funeral plumes for the year." 

— Thomas B. Aldrich. 

"Yet a few sunny days, in which the bee 
Shall murmur by hedges that skirt 
the way, 
The cricket chirp upon the russet lea, 
And man delight to linger in thy 
way." 

— William Cullen Bryant. 



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146 



AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OP PERSONS. 



"The melancholy days are come, the sad- 
dest of the year, 
Of wailing winds and naked woods, and 

meadows brown and sere. 
Heaped in the hollows of the wood, the 

withered leaves lie dead, 
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to 
the rabbit's tread." 

— William Cullen Bryant. 

"The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind 
is wailing, 
The bare boughs are sighing, the pale 
flowers are dying." 

— Percy Bysshe Shelly. 

"But the air's so appetizin', and the land- 
scape through the haze 
Of a crisp and sunny morning of the 

early autumn days 
Is a pictur* that no painter has the col- 

orin' to mock — 
When the frost is on the punkin and 
the fodder's in the shock." 

— James Whitcomb Riley. 

"Sixteen barrels of cider 
Ripening all in a row ! 

Open the vent-channels wider, 
See the froth drifted like snow, 
Blown by the tempests below." 

— Josiah Gilbert Holland. 

"I scattered seed on a barren plain 
And watered the furrow with tears ; 
My heart was heavy with grief and 
pain, 
And my soul distrought with fears. 
But after many weary days 

Of lowering clouds and rain, 
I gathered from seed that was sown in 
tears 
A harvest of golden grain." 

— Thomas Hardy. 

"The day is cold and dark and dreary; 
It rains, and the wind is never weary ; 
The vine still clings to the moldering 

wall, 
And at every gust the dead leaves fall, 
And the day is dark and dreary." 

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 



"Alway and alway, night arid morn, 
Woods upon woods, and fields of corn 
Lying between them, not quite sere, 
And not in the full, thick, leafy bloom, 
When the wind can hardly find breathing 

room 
Under their tassels, — cattle near, 
Biting shorter the short, green grass, 
And a hedge of sumach and sassafras." 

— Alipe Cary. 



AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF PERSONS. 

fAM an Englishman. When I was a 
little boy I was very poor, and was 
forced to work for my own living. This I 
did by pasting the paper covers on black- 
ing pots. My father was unfortunate and 
was placed in prison because he could not 
pay his debts. When I grew to be a man 
I wrote many novels. — Charles Dickens. 

I was born in the wide prairies of Wis- 
consin. Our home, stood alone, with not 
another house in sight. My mother was 
my school-teacher. My father was very 
strict and forbade us playing any game on 
Sunday. I was always fond of outdoor 
work and was allowed to indulge in this 
taste. I made carts, sleds, whiphandles, 
etc., which was considered very rude work 
for a girl. After I became older I be- 
came interested in temperance work. — 
Frances E. Willard. 

I am a Scotchman. When I was a child 
they called me a Scotch "laddie." My 
home was away up in the north of Scot- 
land near Bonnie Doon. My father was 
a very kind man, and we loved him dearly. 
I was fifteen years of age when I wrote 
my first poem. The inspiration came to 
me while I was at work on my father's 
farm. I traveled much, and made the 
acquaintance of many great people. I 
love to write poems. — Robert Burns. 

As a child I always loved to play 
"school" and tell stories. When I was 
sixteen years of age I kept school in a 



ARBOR DAY PROGRAMME. 



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barn, my pupils consisting of the children 
of neighbors, as poor as myself. My 
parents were the inspiration of my life; 
when I began writing stories for press, 
they encouraged me in every possible way. 
I devoted my talents to writing books 
and stories for children. When the Civil 
War began I went to the front as a hospital 
nurse. I afterward published my expe- 
riences in a little volume called "Hospital 
Sketches." — Louisa M. Alcott. 

I am a native of Chicago ; my idols in 
life are my wife, my children, and books. 
I once had another idol, but she is now 
only a tender memory — she was my 
mother. I love all children, and have an 
intimate acquaintance with scores of them ; 
others I have known only through my 
booths, written for them. Perhaps you 
have read "Little Boy Blue," and are thus 
numbered among my little friends. — Eu- 
gene Field. 

I am a Quaker, born in Massachusetts 
and reared on a farm. As a boy I was 
always very fond of out-door sports, but 
my time was not taken up entirely with 
sports; my father believed that all play 
and no work made Jack a ruined boy, con- 
sequently I was early taught to perform 
all sorts of tasks. When I grew to man- 
hood I became an editor, and afterward a 
writer of poems. — John G. Whiitier. 



ARBOR DAY PROGRAMME. 

1 — Song — "O, Come to the Woods 

Away." 
2 — Arbor Day, What it Means. 
3 — A Tree, Its Life and Usefulness. 
4 — Tree Quotations. 
5 — Recitations — 

"The Mulberry Tree." 

"Forest Hvmn." 

"The Talking Oak." 

"He Who Plants a Tree." 
6 — Famous Trees of California, 
7 — Historical Trees. 



8 — Ornamental Trees. 
9 — Fruit Trees. 
10 — Forest Trees. 
11 — Naval Supplies. 
1 2 — Recitations — 

"Woods in Winter." 
"The Upas in May bone Lane." 
"The Oak." 
13 — Story — Mr. Gladstone and the Trees. 
14 — Reading — Prelude to Evangeline. 
15 — Closing Song. 

ARBOR DAY QUOTATIONS. 

"When the bright sun, that brings 

Seedtime and harvest, has returned 
again, 
'Tis sweet to visit the still wood, where 
springs 
The first flower of the plain." 

— Henry W. Longfellow. 

"Like leaves on the trees the life of man 
is found; 

Now green in youth, now withering on 
the ground; 

Another race the following spring sup- 
plies, 

They fall successive and successive rise; 

So generations in their course decay; 

So flourish these, while those have passed 
— Alexander Pope. 



"O whispering trees, companions, sages, 

friends, 
No change, in you, whatever friendship 

ends; 
No deed of yours the Eden link e'er 

broke ; 
Bared is your head, to ward the light- 



ning's stroke/ 



— Alexander Pope. 



"Summer or winter, day or night, 
The woods are ever a new delight; 
They give us peace, and they make us 

strong, 
Such wonderful balms to them belong; 
So living or dying I'll take my ease, 
Under the trees, under the trees." 

— Richard Henry Stoddard, 



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A DAY WITH "ROBBIE" BURNS. 



"It is better to know the habits of one 
plant than the names of a thousand ; and 
wiser to be happily familiar with those 
that grow in the nearest field than ardu- 
ously cognizant of all that plume the isles 
[of the Pacific, or illume the, mountains 
of the moon." — John Buskin. 

"Not merely growing, like a tree, 
In bulk, doth a man better be ; 
Or standing like an oak, three hundred 

years, 
To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear. 
A lily of a day is fairer far in May, 
Although it fall and die that night, 
It was a plant and flower of light; 
In small proportions, we just beauties 

see, 
And, in short measure, life may perfect 
be." — Ben Jonson. 

"Alas, for him who never sees 
The stars shine through his cypress 
trees." — J. G. Whittier. 

"There is something unspeakably cheer- 
ful in a spot of ground which is covered 
with trees, that smiles amidst all rigors 
of winter and gives us a view of the most 
gay season in the midst of which is the 
most dead and melancholy." — Joseph Ad- 
dison. 

"He who plants a tree 
Plants a hope. 

Eootlets up through fibers blindly grope, 
Leaves unfold into horizons free; 
So men's lives must climb, 
From the clods of time 
Unto the heavens sublime. 
Canst thou prophesy thou little tree, 
What the glory of thy boughs will be ?" 
— Lucy Larcom. 

"A pebble in the streamlet scant, 

Has turned the course of many a river; 
A dewdrop on a single plant 

Has warped the giant oak forever." 



"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods ; 
There is rapture on the lonely shore. 
There is society where none intrudes, 
By the deep sea, and music in its roar." 
— Lord Byron. 

"This is the state of man. To-day he puts 
forth 

The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow, 
blossoms, 

And bears his blushing honors thick up- 
on him ; 

The third day comes a frost, a killing- 
frost ; 

And when he thinks — good, easy man, 
full surely 

His greatness is a-rip'ning, nips his roots, 

And then he falls, as I do." 

— William Shakespeare. 

"The groves were God's first temples." 
— William Cullen Bryant. 



A DAY WITH "ROBBIE" BURNS. 

SONG— "Auld Lang Syne." 
Sketch of the Life of Burns. 
Recitations — 

"The Whistle." 

"A Red, Red Rose." 

"Banks of Devon." 

"Farewell to Nancy." 
Song— "Afton Water." 
Reading — "The Cotter's Saturday Night." 
Song — "Highland Mary." 
Description — Rural Life in Scotland. 
Song— "The Bii&s of Aberfeldy." 
Recitations — 

"To a Mountain Daisy." 

"My Nanie, O." 

"Young Peggy." 
Song— "Comin' Through the Rye." 
Quotations from Burns. 
Reading-— "Elegy." 
Song— "The. Highland Laddie." 

QUOTATIONS. 

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 
And never brought to min' ? 



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Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 
And days o' auld lang syne V 

"Then, let us pray that come it may, 
As come it will for a' that ; 
That sense and worth o'er a' the earth 
May bear the gree, and a' that ; 
For a' that and a' that; 
That man to man the world o'er 
Shall brothers be for a' that." 

"Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us 
To see oursels as others see us! 
It wad frae mony a blunder free us 
And foolish notion." 

"Then gently scan your brother man, 
Still gentler sister woman ; 
Though they may gang a kennin' wrong, 
To step aside is human." 

"We twa hae run about the braes, 
And pu'd the gowans fine; 
But we've wandered mony a weary foot 
Sin' auld lang syne." 

"Here's freedom to him that wad read, 
Here's freedom to him that wad write ; 
There's none ever feared that the truth 
should be heard 
But they whom the truth wad indite." 

"The man in life, wherever plac'd, 
Hath happiness in store, 
Who walks not in the wicked's way, 
Nor learns their guilty lore." 

"Morality, thou deadly bane, 
Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain ; 
Vain is his hope, whose stay and trust is 
In moral mercy, truth, and justice." 

"What is life when wanting love? 
Night without a morning ; 
Love's the cloudless summer sky, 
Nature gay adorning." 

"I'll be merry and free, 
I'll be. sad for naebody; 
If naebody care for me, 
I'll care for naebody." 



"Now life's chilly evening dim shades in 
your eye, 
And ushers the long, dreary night ; 
But you, like the star that athwart gilds 
the sky, 
Your course to the latest is bright." 

"Powers celestial, whose protection 

Ever guards the virtuous fair, 
While in distant climes I wander, 

Let my Mary be your care. 
Let her form sae fair and faultless, 

Fair and faultless as your own ; 
Let my Mary's kindred spirit 

Draw your choicest influence, down." 

"O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, 
I aft hae kissed sae fondly ; 
And closed for ay the sparkling glance 
That dwelt on me sae kindly! 
And moldering now in silent dust, 
That heart that lo'ed me dearly, 
But still within my bosom's core 
Shall live my Highland Mary." 



SKETCH OF LIFE OF BURNS. 

• OBERT BURNS was born Jan. 25, 
1759, in a little cottage about two 
miles from the town of Ayr, away up in 
the north of Scotland. The cottage, a 
clay one, was the work of his father's own 
hand. A week after the poet's birth it 
gave way in a violent storm, and mother 
and child were carried, at midnight, to 
the shelter of a neighbor's dwelling. 

William Burns, the poet's father, was a 
small farmer, possessed of unusual intelli- 
gence and brain power; his mother was 
possessed of unusual beauty, both of face 
and form, and a memory stored with song 
and ballad, from whom "Robbie" inher- 
ited his love of the weird and beautiful. 

BURNS THE BOY. 

The. father of Burns was a very kind- 
hearted man, and the children felt sad if 
they were disobedient enough to cause him 
to punish them. Robert said : "If he had 



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to give us a stripe with 'Taws/ a leather 
strap, it gave us great pain, even if he but 
touched the skirt of our coat," and great 
was the weeping and wailing if such pun- 
ishment became necessary. 

An old nurse, Betty Davidson by name, 
resided in the Burns family; her mind 
was a most wonderful storehouse of sto- 
ries of witches, ghosts, fairies, brownies, 
spunkies, and kelpies. She taught the 
children that these little creatures inhabi- 
ted woods, water and graveyards ; she also 
told of giants and dragons that held sway 
on the high hills. These stories so im- 
pressed Robert that he used to keep a 
sharp lookout whenever it was necessary 
for him to go out walking at night. 

At the age of six years Robert was sent 
to school at Alloway Mill ; on the removal 
of the teacher from this place a few 
months after this time, a new teacher was 
engaged by several families, who received 
a small allowance and "boarded around" 
among the families of his pupils. From 
this instructor Robert received instruc- 
tions in English, which he completely mas- 
tered. In speaking of this period of his 
school-life he says : "I was a good English 
scholar at eleven years of age, but it cost 
the schoolmaster some thrashings." 



BURNS THE YOUTH. 



Because of the extreme, poverty of his 
father's family Robert was obliged to as- 
sist in the support of the family early in 
life. At the age of fifteen he became a 
plow-boy on his father's farm. It was in 
a harvest field that he first received the 
inspiration to write a poem. There was 
a "bonnie sweet lassie" gleaning in the 
field by his side; she possessed a sweet 
voice and Robert composed some verses 
for her to sing, much to the enjoyment of 
the other lads and lassies in the field. 

Although compelled to labor from morn 
till night Burns lost none of his passionate 
love of books; he would eat his dinner 
with one hand, holding a book in the other. 
He carried books with him into the fields 
that he might read in spare moments. It 



was during this time that he was inspired 
to wish, 

"That I for poor old Scotland's sake, 
Some useful plan or book could make or 
sing a song at least." 

BURNS THE MAN. 

In Robert's twenty-fifth year his father 
died; the poet and his brother continued 
to run the farm, but could scarcely make 
a living. About this time Burns decided 
to emigrate to the West Indies. He en- 
gaged as a bookkeeper to a slave estate in 
Jamaica, and had taken passage for West 
Indies; before the ship set sail, however, 
the wonderful success of his first volume 
of poems, published at this time, 1786, at 
Kilmarnook, caused him to alter his plans 
and thus changed the whole course of his 
future life. 

It was about this time in life that Burns 
first met "Highland Mary ;" this acquaint- 
ance ripened into love, such love as Burns 
never bore another woman, they were be- 
trothed and during the time set for prep- 
aration for their wedding, she died; and 
years after we learn how dear she was, 
even in memory, by the impassionate love- 
songs written to her memory. 

In 1787 a second edition of poems ap- 
peared. These were followed, in 1792, by 
one hundred songs, under the title 
"Melodies of Scotland." 

The beautiful home poem "The Cotter's 
Saturday Night," together with the many 
sweet ballads, has made the "Bonny 
Scotch Laddie" immortal. These songs 
will continue to ring in the ear and heart 
of every true Scotchman as long as time 
endures. 

In March 1788, Burns was united in 
marriage to Jean Armour. 

THE DEATH OF BURNS. 

In April 1796, Burns penned the fol- 
lowing words. "I fear it will be some- 
time before I tune my lyre again. By 
Babel's stream I have sat and wept. I 
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of sickness and counted time by the re- 
percussion of pain." On July 4th, his 
condition was pronounced critical, and on 
the 21st, the spirit of the sweet singer took 
its flight. 

He was buried on Monday, July 28, 
1796, from the Town Hall at Dumfries, 
with military honors. 



BIRD DAY. 



1— Song— "The Merry Brown Thrush." 
2 — Migration of Birds. 
3 — Bird Quotations. 
4_Song— a The Birdie's Ball." 
5 — Recitations, 

"Birds in Summer." 
"Robert O'Lincoln." 
"The Bird and the Ship." 
6— Song— "The Brown Birds." 
7 — Paper — Birds of Prey. 
8 — Contrast — The Eagle vs. the Dove. 
9— History— "The Birds of Killing- 
worth." 
10— Song— "Kobin Kedbreast." 
11 — Recitations — 

"The First Bluebird."— James W. 

Riley. 
"Address to a Woodlark." — Robert 

Burns. 
"The Swallow. "—Thomas Aird. 
"The Blackbird."— Alfred Tenny- 
son. 



12- 
13- 
14- 

15- 



-Xest Building. 
-Song— "The Little Doves." 
-Reading— "The Raven."— Edgar Al- 
len Poe. 
-Closing Song. 



THE OWLS' RECEPTION DAY. 

{A Bird Day Exercise.) 

(Note. — This exercise is designed for a 
primary school. Father and Mother Owl 
are dressed to represent very old, wise 
persons. Both should wear frilled caps, 
and spectacles. The other birds may be 
dressed to suit your fancy.) 



Opening Scene. — Father and Mother 
Owl seated awaiting guests. 

Father Owl: — 
This is the day, dear Mother Owl, 
To welcome every bird and fowl 
Lately returned from Southland, fair, 
To soar once more through Northern air. 

Mother Owl: — 
Yes, the time has come at last 
When winter's chilling winds are passed, 
And springtime's lovely robes of green 
Upon her children may be seen ; 
The birds may now return once more 
To haunts and homes, they've known 

before : 
I'll gladly give a welcome sweet, 
To all whom we to-day may meet. 

Father Owl :— 
The robin will be first to call, 
He always tries to beat them all. 
Redbreast is a cheery fellow — 
Although his voice is far from mellow. 

Mother Owl: — 

(Bluebird enters.) 
How nice to be at home, once more, 
I hardly realized before, 
How very dear one's home can be — 
Until by cold, we're forced to flee. 
Of course, the Southland is quite nice 
With all its flowers, fruits and rice ; 
But our old hollow apple tree 
Is dearer, far than all to me ; 
'Twas there, my mother chose to nest, 
And shelter me 'neath her warm breast : 
And so 'tis dearer far to me 
Than any other e'er can be ; 
So in that tree I'll build my nest, 
And settle down to peaceful rest. 

Mother Owl: — 
True dear, no matter where we may roam, 
We find there's no place like — "home 

sweet home." 
To settle in your old home nest 
I think, of all plans, is the best. 



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(Enter Eobin.) 
Well, now I'm beaten, I declare 
For there is Bluebird in that chair ; 
I was tired and took a nap, 
Hence, got beaten by that chap ; 
Well, I have found a cherry tree, 
And that will make the home for me ; 
For cherries sweet, and round, and red, 
Will hang all round and overhead. 
Now won't that be a jolly way 
To feed my birdies every day ? 

Mother Owl: — 
Oh, Robin Redbreast can't you see 
In what great danger you will be, 
If you nest in that cherry tree % 
The boys will try to kill you, quite, 
And worry you from morn till night 
By throwing sticks, and earth and stones, 
To frighten you and break your bones. 
Oh, Redbreast listen unto me 
Trust not the tempting cherry tree. 

Father Owl : — 
Oh, Robin think of what a fate 
Might overcome your little mate. 
'Tis better far to search for bread 
Tho' cherries do hang o'er your head ; 
I beg of you select a spot, 
Where naughty boys can harm you not. 

Robin : — 
I wish there were no naughty boys 
To throw big stones and make a noise ; 
I'm very sure I cannot see 
Why they should wish to bother me, 
I sing for them my sweetest song — 
And search for worms the whole day long. 
But I will choose another tree 
Where they will never search for me. 

( Kuter Wren.) 
I'm. glad the winter time is o'er, 
And I may be at home once more, 
I do so dread to fly away, 
When autumn winds begin to play— 
Because I love my Northern home, 
Of brightest days, and richest loam. 
But now we have returned once more 
To haunts and homes we've known before. 



The children I am glad to see — 
They always are so kind to me, 
They've made for me a little house, 
To nest in, snug as any mouse. 
They always see that I am fed 
Upon the best of fruit and bread ; 
So much is added to my joys 
By kindness of the girls and boys. 

Bluebird : — 
Now old ^Father Owl, 
You're called a wise fowl — 
Here's a question for you to-day: 
The robins dislike boys, 
With their racket and noise, 
The wrens love them all, they say ; 
Now, pray tell me, 
Why this should be ? 

Father Owl: — 
The wren is such a gentle bird — 
No one could help but love her, 
No one has ever thought or heard 
Of aught of ill against her. 
The robin has been called a thief, 
Because he loves the cherries — • 
And so you see, he came to grief, 
Because he eats the berries. 

(Enter Crow.) 
Caw, caw, caw ! Caw, caw, caw ! 
You're the silliest birds that I ever saw ; 
Have you nothing to do, but sit and talk ? 
I'm going to fight with that old Black- 
hawk; 
It's about some meat, that we both eat raw, 
So adieu to all. Caw, caw, caw ! 

(Enter Dove.) 
I'm so glad that crow has flown away, 
He frightens me much every day ; 
He's so very strange, and rough and bold, 
Really when I see him, I turn quite cold. 
I'm very glad to meet each of you, 
But I must be going coo, coo, coo. 

(Exit Dove.) 

Mother Owl: — 
One of the greatest contrasts one can know 
Is that between the dove and crow; 



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153 



I Lave heard a legend of the dove, 
'Tis said its mission on earth is love ; 
And the same legend says, that an old 

black crow, 
Brings the beholder, nothing but woe. 

(Enter Brownthrush. ) 
Oh I am so glad, I am so free, 
No sorrow I'm sure will come unto me — 
I've sung my song from North to South, 
It warbles forth, if I open my mouth ; 
I've learned new songs, during my winter 

away — 
So I must be going to practice to-day ; 
I wish you birdies a very good-bye, 
Keep up your spirits and sing as you fly ? 

(Exit all birds.) 

Father Owl: — 
The clay is growing late, 
And shadows now appear — 
The last kind caller gone, 
Now we will rest my dear ; 
While you are looking after 
The duties 'round the house, 
I will bring for supper 
A nice fat mouse. 

(Exit Father Owl.) 

Mother Owl: — 
The day has been a pleasant one, and I 

was glad to see — 
So many little birdies in our home tree. 
I think I'll take a little soar, to rest my 

folded wings, 
And then hurry home to see what father 
brings. 
(Exit Mother Owl.) 



A CHRISTMAS EXERCISE. 

(Adapted From Washington Irving' s 
Sketch Boole.) 

First Pupil : — 

"Lo, now has come the welcome feast, 
Let every one be jolly: 
Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, 
And every post with holly. 



Now all the neighbors' chimneys smoke, 
And Christmas blocks are burning ; 
Their ovens, they with baked meats 

choke — 
And all their spits are turning. 
Without the door let sorrow lie, 
And if, for cold, it hap to die, 
We'll bury it in the Christmas pie — 
And evermore be merry." 

A CHRISTMAS GUEST. 

Second Pupil : — 

As we approached the house we heard 
the sound of music and now and then a 
burst of laughter from one end of the. 
building. This my host told me, must 
proceed from the servant's hall, where a 
great deal of revelry was permitted, and 
even encouraged, throughout the twelve 
days of Christmas cheer. Here was kept 
the old games of "Hoodman Blind," 
"Shoe the Wild Mare," "Hot Cockles," 
"Steal the White Loaf," "Bob Apple," 
and "Snap Dragon." The yule-log and 
Christmas candle w T ere regularly burnt, 
and the mistletoe with its white berries 
hung up. 

So intent were the servants upon their 
sports that we had to ring repeatedly be- 
fore we could make ourselves heard. 

THE YULE-LOG. 

Third Pupil : — 

The yule-log is a great log of wood, 
sometimes the root of a tree, brought into 
the house with great ceremony on Christ- 
mas Eve, laid in the fireplace, and lighted 
with the brand of last year's log. While 
it lasts there is great singing, drinking, 
and telling of tales. Sometimes it is ac- 
companied with Christmas candles ; but in 
the cottages the only light is from the glow 
of the log. The yule-log is burned all the 
night, and if it dies out it is considered a 
sign of great ill luck. The yule-log is yet 
burned in many farm houses of England, 
particularly in the north, and there are 
many superstitions connected with it. If 
a squinting person comes into the house 
while it is burning, or a person barefooted, 



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it is considered a bad omen. The brand 
remaining from the yule-log is carefully 
put away for next year's Christmas fire. 

THE MISTLETOE. 

Fourth Pupil : — 

The mistletoe is intimately connected 
with many of the superstitions of the Ger- 
mans and the British. In the Northern 
mythology, Balder is said to have been 
slain by a spear made from a branch of 
mistletoe. 

The mistletoe is still hung up in farm 
houses and kitchens at Christmas, and the 
young men have the privilege of kissing 
the girl under it, plucking each time a 
berry from the bush. When the berries 
are all plucked the privilege ceases. 

THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. 

Fifth Pupil :— 

When I awoke the next morning it 
seemed that all the events of the previous 
evening had been a happy dream. While 
I yet lay musing on my pillow I heard the 
sound of little feet pattering outside the 
door, and a whispered consultation. 
Presently a choir of small voices broke 
forth in an old Christmas carol, the burden 
of which was : 

"Rejoice our Savior was born 
On Christmas day in the morning." 

I rose softly, slipped on my clothing, 
opened the door suddenly, and beheld one 
of the most beautiful little fairy groups 
that a painter could imagine. It consisted 
of a boy and two girls, the eldest not more 
than six, and lovely as seraphs. They were 
going the rounds of the house and singing 
at every chamber door. 



CHRISTMAS GEMS FROM DICKENS. 

fp5 OD bless you, merry gentleman ; may 
\J& nothing you dismay." 

"The happiness it gives is quite, as great 
as though it cost a fortune." 

"Though it has never put a scrap of 
gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that 



it has done me good, and will do me good ; 
and I say, God bless it." 

"There was a boy singing a Christmas 
carol at my door last night. I should liked 
to have given him something." 

"There was an air of cheerfulness 
abroad that the clearest summer air, or 
brightest summer sun might have en- 
deavored to diffuse in vain." 

"Apples and oranges were put upon the 
table, and a shovelful of chestnuts on the 
fire, then all the happy family drew 
around the fire." 

"But every man among them hummed 
a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas 
thought, or spoke below his breath to his 
companion of some bygone Christmas 
day." 

"All the boys were in great spirits and 
shouted to each other until the broad fields 
were full of merry music." 

"I will honor Christmas in my heart 
and try to keep it all the year. I will live 
in the past, the present and the future. 
The spirit of all three shall thrive within 
me. I will not shut out the lessons that 
they teach." 

"Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, 
turkey, geese, game, poultry, meat, pigs, 
sausage, oysters, pie, pudding, fruit and 
punch." 

"Of all good days of the year, Christ- 
mas is the best." 

"Cheer up! Don't give way! A new 
heart for a New Year always." 



A DAY WITH EUGENE FIELD. 

PENING Song. 
Sketch of Life of Field. 
Song— "Sleepy Song." 
Recitations — 

"Old Times, Old Friends, Old 

Love." 
"My Playmates." 
"Seem' Things at Night." 
Song— "The Little Peach." 
Reading — "Christmas Treasures." 



A DAY WITH EUGENE FIELD. 



l.V 



Recitations — 

"The Kide to Bumpville." 

"The Cunnin' Little Thing." 

"Picnic Time." 
Story — Eugene Field and the Children. 
Song— "So, So, Rock— a— By So." 
Recitations — 

"Little Boy Blue." 

"The Wanderer." 

"Booh." 

"The Rock-a-By Lady." 
Quotations. 
Reading — "Sermon Written by Field in 

Childhood." 
Closing Song. 

QUOTATIONS. 

"With big tin trumpet and little red drum, 
Marching like soldiers, the children 

come; 
It's this way and that way they circle and 

file, 
My ! but that music of theirs is fine, 
This way and that way, and, after awhile, 
They march straight into this heart of 

mine. 
O ! sturdy old heart, but it has to succumb 
To the blare of that trumpet and beat of 

that drum." 

"Oh! cottage neath the maples, have you 

seen those girls and boys 
That but a little while ago, made, oh! 

such pleasant noise? 
Oh, trees and hills and brooks and lanes 

and meadows, do you know 
Where I shall find my little friends of 

forty years ago ? 
You see I'm old and weary, and Fve 

traveled long and far ; 
I'm looking for my playmates and I 

wonder where they are." 

"The Rock-a-By Lady from Hush-a-bye 

street 
Comes stealing, comes creeping. 
The poppies they hang from her head to 

her feet, 
And each hath a dream that is tiny and 

fleet; 



She bringeth here poppies to you, my 

sweet, — 
When she findeth you sleeping." 

"That night, while lengthening shadows 
crept, 
I saw the white-winged angels come 
With singing to our lowly home, 
And kiss my darling as he slept." 

"But if again that angel train 

And golden head come back to me, 
To bear me to Eternity, 
My watching will not be in vain." 

"Upon a mountain height, far from the 
sea, 
I found a shell ; 

And to my listening ear the lonely thing 
Ever a song of ocean seemed to tell, 
Ever a song of ocean seemed to sing." 

"Genius is not in it; it's w T ork and pa- 
tience, and staying with a thing. Inspira- 
tion is all right and pretty and a sugges- 
tion, but it's when a man gets a pen in his 
hand and sweats blood, that inspiration 
begins to enter in." 

"There is no love like the good old love — 
The love that mother gave us. 
We are old, old men, yet we pine again 
For that precious grace — God gave us. 
So we dream and dream of the good old 

times, 
And our hearts grow tenderer, fonder, 
As those, dear old dreams bring soothing 

gleams, 
Of heaven away off yonder." 

SKETCH OF FIELD'S LIFE. 

Eugene Field was born in St. Louis in 
1850. His parents were natives of Ver- 
mont ; his father being a lawyer and a 
graduate of Middlebury College. At seven 
years of age Field was left motherless, and 
he, together with his brothers, was sent to 
Massachusetts, and placed under the care 
of a cousin, a Miss French. Here in the 
old town of Amherst, Mass., was spent the 



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youth and early manhood of Field. When 
Field was nine years of age, he was sent 
to Fayetteville to visit his grandmother; 
here he stayed seven months, learning to 
love nature with all the strength of his 
nature, as this was the first time he had 
ever lived in the real country. This grand- 
mother was an old-time New England 
Congregationalist, and was very particular 
about the training of these motherless 
boys, under her care. She used to give 
Eugene ten cents for every sermon he 
would write, and it is said that one of his 
most treasured possessions as a man, was 
one of these sermons written while an in- 
mate of his grandmother's home. She gave 
him five dollars for memorizing the ten 
commandments. 

At sixteen years of age Field fitted him- 
self for college, but owing to poor health 
did not enter Williams college until his 
eighteenth year ; during the time he was a 
student in this college his father died and 
he returned to the west. He lived with his 
guardian Mr. Burgess, who was at that 
time a professor in Knox college, Gales- 
burg, 111. This college in after years con- 
ferred the degree of A. M. on Field. At 
twenty-one years of age Field became heir 
to a fortune, and made a tour of Europe. 
Field says of himself at this critical time : 
"I was young, I had money, and I paid it 
out for experience — it was plenty. Ex- 
perience was lying around loose." 

On returning from the European tour, 
Field went to St. Louis and obtained work 
on the Journal ; this was the beginning of 
his literary career. The first poem written 
by Field was entitled "Christmas Treas- 
ures," and was written to fill space in the 
Journal; this was in 1877. 

Field's poems are largely poems of 
childhood, and this fact together with his 
fondness for children has given him the 
sobriquet of "The Child Lover." Among 
his popular works may be mentioned 
"Denver Tribune Primer," 1882; "Cul- 
ture's Garden," 1887; "A Little Book of 
Western Verse," 1889; "A Little Book of 
Profitable Tales," 1890 ; "Echoes From a 



Sabine Farm," 1895. Since his death 
there has appeared an unfinished story, 
"The House," 1896. 

Eugene Field died in Chicago, 111., in 
1895, and thus early in years passed away 
the great "Chicago Humorist," whom all 
loved very dearly. 



A DAY WITH CARLETON. 

(Suggestive Programme.) 

1 — Song. 

2 — Life of Carleton. 

3 — Gems From Carleton. 

4 — Recitations — 

"The New Church Organ." 

"Death-Doomed." 

"The Christmas Baby." 
5— Reading — "The First Settler's 

Story." 
6— Story— "Bess' Three Lovers." 
7 — Song. 

8— Reading— "Three Links of a Life." 
9 — Recitations — 

"Cover Them Over." 

"Our Army of the Dead." 

"Paul's Run Off With the Show." 
1 — Readings — 

"Betsey and I are Out." 

"How Betsey and I Made Up." 
11— Tableau— "Over The Hills to The 

Poor House." 
12 — Dialogue — "Gone With a Handsomer 

Man." 
13 — Closing Song. 

GEMS FROM CARLETON. 

"Boys flying kites, haul in their white- 
winged birds, 
But you can't do that when you're flying 

words, 
Thoughts unexpressed will ofttimes fall 

back dead, 
But God himself can't kill them — once 
they're said." 

— First Settler's Story. 

"And so that heaver we argued, no nearer 
to us got, 






CLOSING EXERCISE FJOR SCHOOL. 



Lfl 



But it gave us a taste of something, a 
thousand times as hot." 

— Betsey and I are Out. 

"Honor to those who are living yet ! 
Time shall their laurels make more 

green ! 
But at this hour, we must not forget — 
Those we may call our guests unseen." 
— Our Guests Unseen. 

"The midnight rested its heavy arm — 
Upon the grief-encumbered farm; 
And hoarse-voiced sorrow wandered at 

will, 
Like a moan, when the summer's night is 
still." 

— Three Links of a Life. 

"Worm or beetle, drought or tempest, 
On a farmer's land may fall; 
But for first-class ruination, 
Trust a mortgage 'gainst them all." 

— The Tramp 's Story. 

LIFE OF CARLETON. 

Will Carleton was born near Hudson, 
Mich., in 1845. His father being one of 
the pioneers of Lenawee county. He 
cleared a farm, and lived in the usual 
hardy pioneer style. Here five children 
were reared, in the pursuits of farm life. 

Will Carleton early developed a craving 
for learning, and worked hard at his books 
in the little country school house; as he 
grew older he walked daily five miles to the 
nearest high school. He proved so apt a 
scholar, that at the age of sixteen years he 
himself became a teacher, thus obtaining 
the means of defraying his expenses to 
Llillsdale College, where he graduated in 
1869, delivering on this occasion his 
beautiful poem, "Rifts in the Cloud." 

While yet young in years Carleton ac- 
quired popularity as a writer by a number 
of poems written under the nom de plume 
of "Paul Pillow ;"the most notable of these 
earlier poems being "Fax," a political 
effusion. This was followed by "For- 
ward," and numerous other short poems 
along the same line of thought. But it 



was the publication of the beautiful 
memorial day poem, "Cover Them Over." 
that caused the wave of popularity which 
finally discovered who "Paul Pillow," 
really was. In 1871, the poet's corner of 
the Toledo Blade published the now 
popular poem "Betsey and I Are Out," 
which the timid author had not dared to 
set a price upon. The results were 
phenomenal; it was promptly republished 
with characteristic drawings in Harper's 
Weekly and Will Carleton's standing as a 
poet was fixed forever. 

His first published volume "Farm Bal- 
lads" has stirred the hearts of all the com- 
mon people, both old and young. Here 
grief, pathos, joy and mirth are inter- 
mingled in true life-like manner. "Farm 
Legends" followed in 1875; "Farm Fes- 
tivals" in 1881; "Young Folks' Centen- 
nial Rhymes" in 1876 ; "City Ballads" in 
1885; "City Festivals" in 1892 and 
"Rhymes of Our Planet" in 1895. 

Mr. Carleton is favorably known as a 
lecturer, both in the United States and 
Great Britain. 



CLOSING EXERCISE FOR SCHOOL. 

A DAY WITH GEEAT AUTHORS. 

1— Song— "Those Evening Bells."— 

Moore. 
2 — Gems From Favorite Poets. 
3 — Reading — "Thanatopsis." — Bryant. 
4— Paraphrase— "The Village Black- 
smith." — Longfellow. 
5 — Recitations — 

"In School T>&ys."—Whittier. 

"Jerry, The Miller."— Saxe. 

"The Boys."— Holmes. 

"A Song of the Camp."— Taylor. 
6— Song— "The Bridge.' 9 — -Longfellow. 
7 — Anecdotes of Poets. 
8 — Paper — Homes of Authors. 
9 — Reading — Selection from "Sketch 

Book." — Irving. 
10 — Historical Poems — 

"Grandmother's Story of Bunker 
Hill"— Holmes. 



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SOME QUEER NAMES FOR PEOPLE. 



"Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.' ' 
— Mrs. Hemans. 

"Gertrude of Wyoming." — Camp- 
bell. 

"Paul Revere's Ride." — Longfel- 
low. 
11 — Description, Brook Farm. 
12 — Song — "Annie Laurie." — Burns. 
13 — Recitations — 

"The Cloud."— Shelley. 

"Songs of Seven." — Ingelow. 

"Pictures From Memory." — Cary. 

"When the Prost is on the Pun- 
kin." — Riley. 
14— Song— "The Last Rose of Summer." 

— Moore. 
15 — Domestic Lives of Writers. 
16— "Death of Little ~NeYL."— Dickens. 
17 — Song — "Excelsior." — Longfellow. 
18— Reading— "The Little Yaller Baby." 

—Field. 
19 — Recitations — 

"Annabel Lee." — Foe. 

"Saturday Afternoon." — Willis. 

"Waggoner of the Alleghenies." — 
Read. 
18 — Reading — Cellar Scene of "Bitter 

Sweet." — Holland. 
19 — Peculiar Deaths of Authors. 
20— Song — "Home, Sweet Home." — 

Payne. 



CITY ENIGMAS. 



What is called, 

1— The "City of Brotherly Love?" 
(Philadelphia.) 

2— The "City of Churches?" (Brook- 
lyn, 1ST. Y.) 

3_The "City of Elms ?" (New Haven, 
Conn.) 

4— The "City of Magnificent Dis- 
tances?" (Washington, D. C.) 

5— The "City of Masts?" (London, 
Eng.) 

6— The "City of Palm Trees?" (Jericho.) 

7— The "City of Spindles?" (Lowell, 
Mass.) 

8— The "City of The Great King?" 
(Jerusalem.) 



9— The "City of Straits?" (Detroit, 

Mich.) 
10— The "City of The Violet Crown?" 

(Athens, Greece.) 
1 1— The "Windy City ?" (Chicago, 111.) 
12— The "Monumental City?" (Balti- 
more, Md.) 
13— The "Queen City of the Lakes?" 

(Buffalo, K. Y.) 
14— The "Garden City?" (Chicago, 

111.) 
15— The "Queen City?" (Cincinnati, O.) 
16— The "Forest City ?" (Cleveland, O.) 
17— The "Bluff City ?" (Hannibal, Mo. ) 
18— The "Gate City ?" (Keokuk, Iowa.) 
19— The "Crescent City ?"(]STew Orleans.) 
20— The "Mound City?" (St. Louis, 

Mo.) 
21— The "City of Rocks?" (Nashville, 

Tenn.) 
22— The "Iron City?" (Pittsburg, Penn.) 
23— The "Flour City?" (Rochester, JSL 

Y.) 
24— The "Flower City?" (Springfield, 

HI.) 
25— "Gotham ?" (New York city.) 



SOME QUEER NAMES FOR PEOPLE. 

Who was, 
1— "Uncle Robert?" (Robert E. Lee.) 
2— The "Great Pacificator?" (Henry 

Clay.) 
3— The "Plumed Knight?" (James G. 

Blaine. ) 
4 — Who was "Mad Anthony?" (Anthony 

Wayne. ) 
5— Who was "Old Rough and Ready?" 

(Zachary Taylor.) 
6— Who was "The Father of His 

Country?" (George Washington.) 
7 — Who was "Honest Abe ?" (Abraham 

Lincoln. ) 
8— Who was "The Rail-Splitter?" 

(Abraham Lincoln.) 
9 — Who was the "Hero of Appomattox ?" 

(Ulysses S. Grant.) 
10— Who was the "Hero of New Orleans ?" 

(Andrew Jackson.) 



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11— Who was "Stonewall?" (Thomas J. 

Jackson.) 
12 — Who was "Unconditional Sur- 
render?" (Ulysses S. Grant.) 
13 — Who was the "Great Commoner?" 

(Thaddeus Stevens.) 
14— Who was the "Hero of the Tow 

Path?" (James Abraham Gar- 
field.) 
15 — Who was the "Sage of Monticello?" 

(Thomas Jefferson.) 
16 — Who was the. "Sage of Greystone?" 

(Samuel Tilden.) 
17 — Who was the "Kock of Chicka- 

mauga?" (George H. Thomas.) 
18— Who was "Poor Kichard?" (Benj. 

Franklin. ) 
19— Who was "The Mill Boy of The 

Slashes?" (Henry Clay.) 
20— Who was the "Man of Destiny?" 

(Grover Cleveland.) 
21— Who was "Little David?" (John 

Randolph.) 
22 — Who was the "Gray-eyed Man of 

Destiny?" (Gen. Wm. Walker.) 



ENIGMAS FOR BOYS AND GIELS. 

ENIGMA I. 

HE following enigma contains twen- 
ty-eight letters, and when properly 
placed will form one of the famous say- 
ings of Benj. Franklin: 

1 — 7 — 24 — 9 — 17 is a vital organ of 
the human body. (Heart.) 

15—22—20—19—21—18 is a semi- 
tropical fruit. (Orange.) 

8—12—27—14—11—26—23 is an 
obnoxious, thorny w^eed. (Thistle.) 

25 — 13 — 16 — 4 is a little quarrel. 
(Tiff.) 

6 — 10 — 5 is a poor dwelling place. 
(Hut.) 

2 — 3 — 28 is an intoxicating beverage. 
(Ale.) 

"Half the truth is often a great lie." 



ENIGMA NO. II. 

The whole is a well-known maxim con- 
taining thirty-seven letters: 

2 — 17 — 27 is a head-covering. 

24—3—6—11—14—31—15—33—10 
— 30 — 32 an American hero. (Washing- 
ton.) 

12 — 25 — 16 a domestic animal. (Dog.) 

29 — 1 — 35 — 20 — 37 to inhabit. 
(Dwell.) 

7 — 28 — 22 — 26—21 to rotate with 
great speed. (Whirl.) 

34 — 8 — 13 — 36 the covering of some 
animals. (Wool.) 

4—9—19—5—18—23 a peculiarity of 
character. (Traits.) 

"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth 
doing well." 

ENIGMA NO. III. 

The whole is composed of twenty-eight 
letters, and is another of Franklin's say- 
ings: 

2—17—7—18—12—8—15—20 a for- 
mer president of the United States. (Har- 
rison.) 

24 — 6 — 5 — 16 a part of a dwelling. 
(Room.) 

29—2—11 is a pledge. (Vow.) 
25 — 1 — 3 — 19 — 14 a name sometimes 
applied to a horse. (Steed.) 

13—26—27—28 to close. (Shut.) 
10—23—21—4 to give food. (Feed.) 
"The doors of wisdom are never shut." 



FLAG DAY EXERCISE. 

1 — Song — "America." 

2 — History of Our Flag. 

3 — Paper — Betsey Ross and Our Flag. 

4 — Song — "Star-Spangled Banner." 

5 — Recitations — 

"E Pluribus Unum."— Cutter. 
"The American Flag." — Drake. 
"Betsey's Battle Flag." — Minna 
Irving. 

6— Song— "Red, White and Blue." 

7— Story of the Writing of "Star Span- 
gled Banner." 



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8— Song— "Our Flag is There." 
9 — Paper — Birthday of Our Flag. 

10 — Recitations — 

"The American Flag." — Taylor. 
"Old Glory."— Spajford. 
"Only One Flag."— Anon. 

11— Song— "Rally Round the Flag." 

12 — Incidents of Bravery for Our Flag. 

13 — Flag Quotations. 

14— Song— "When the Old Flag Waves." 

15 — Evolution of Our Flag. 

16— Song— "All Hail Our Glorious Ban- 
ner." 

FLAG QUOTATIONS. 

"Three cheers for our nag! The red, 

white and blue, 
In dangers and trials may we ever prove 

true; 
We will live by its precepts, we will die 

e'er a stain 
Shall dim its bright colors, oh long may 

it reign." — Anon. 

"The union of lakes, the union of lands, 

The union of states, none can sever ; 

The union of hearts, the union of hands, 

And the flag of our union forever." 

— James B. Lowell. 

"Take from your flag its folds of gloom, 
And let it float undimmed above ; 
Till over all our vales shall bloom 
The sacred colors that we love." 

— Alice Cary. 

"If ever it is a question whether you or 
your flag must perish, you will instantly 
choose that it shall not be the flag." — 
Wm. T. Sherman. 

"I love my flag, and I will say here 
and I will say everywhere that for Ameri- 
cans there is but one flag." — Gen. Sickles. 

"God pity the American citizen who 
does not love the flag; who does not see 
in it the story of our great free institu- 
tions, and the hope of the home as well as 
the nation," — Benj. Uanison, 



"With patriotism in our hearts, and 
with the flag of our country in the hands 
of our children, there is no danger of 
anarchy and there is no danger to the 
union." — Wm. McKinley. 

"May never traitor's touch pollute 
These colors of the sky; 
We want them pure, to wrap about 
Our heroes when they die." 

— Thos. B. Aldrich. 

"Shoot if you must this old gray head, 
But spare your country's flag, she said." 
— John G. Whittier. 

"Banner of hope and bringer of the day, 
In dreams foreseen, of better things to 
be, 
Thy clustering stars, with empyrean ray, 
Shall pilot men to loftier destiny." 

—Wight. 

" 'Tis the Star-Spangled Banner, Oh long 
may it wave — 
O'er the land of the free, and the home 
of the brave." 

— Francis S. Key. 

"Forever float that standard sheet, 

Where breathes the foe but falls before 
us, 
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, 
And Freedom's banner floating o'er 
us." — Rodman Drake. 



"By communion of the banner — 
Crimson, white and starry banner- 
By the baptism of the banner, 
Children of one church are we. 
Creed nor faction can divide us, 
Race nor language can divide us, 
Still, whatever fate divide us, 
Children of one flag are we." 

— Hal pine. 

" 'Twas in that hour his stern command 
Called to a martyr's grave 
The flower of his beloved land, 






The nation's flag to save." 



— O'llara, 



FOR YOUNG HISTORIANS. 



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"Of all the flags that float aloft 

O'er Neptune's gallant tars, 
Or wave on high in victory, 

Above the sons of Mars, 
Give me our flag — Columbia's flag — 

The emblem of the free. 
And fling it out 'mid song and shout, 

The banner of the Sea." — Anon. 

"I express it as my conviction before 
God that it is the duty of every American 
citizen to rally 'round the flag of his coun- 
try." — Chauncey Depew. 

"The past is past ; the wild flowers bloom 
where charging squadron's met; 
And tho' we keep war's memories green, 

why not the cause forget; 
And have, while battle strains fade out 

'neath heaven's pitying tears, 
One land, one flag, one brotherhood, 
through all the coming years." 

— Collier. 

"Only one flag! for four years we de- 
fended, 
Only one flag! through war's sacrifice 

ended, 
Only one flag! proudest, grandest in 

story, 
Only one flag! our beloved Old Glory." 

— Anon. 




FOE YOUNG HISTORIANS. 

^HO said: 

1 — "These are the times that try 

men's souls?" (Thos. Paine.) 
2 — "To be prepared for war is one of the 

most effectual means of preserving 

peace?" (George Washington.) 
3 — "We have met the enemy, and they 

are ours?" (Oliver H. Perry.) 
4 — "Don't give up the ship?" (James 

Lawrence. ) 
5 — "There stands Jackson like a stone 

wall?" (Bee.) 
6 — "We have been unfortunate but not 

disgraced?" (Porter.) 



7 — "With malice toward none, with char- 
ity for all?" (Abraham Lincoln.) 
8 — "This is the last of earth, I am con- 
tent ?" (John Quincy Adams.) 
9 — "I propose to fight it out on this line 
if it takes all summer?" (U. S. 
Grant.) 

10 — "I was born an American, I live an 
American, and I shall die an Amer- 
ican?" (Daniel Webster.) 

11 — "In the name of the Great Jehovah 
and the Continental Congress?" 
(Ethan Allen.) 

12 — "I'd rather be right than be presi- 
dent of the United States?" 
(Henry Clay.) 

13— "I'll try, sir ?" ( Col. Miller. ) 

14 — "I am not worth purchasing; but, 
such as I am, the King of Great 
Britain is not rich enough to pur- 
chase me?" (Joseph Reed.) 

15 — "We must beat the Redcoats to-day or 
Molly Stark is a widow?" (Capt. 
Stark.) 

16 — "He touched the dead corpse of public 
credit and it sprang upon its feet ?" 
(Daniel Webster.) 

17 — "The headquarters of the Army of 
the Potomac will be in the saddle V 
(Gen. John Pope.) 

18 — "A government of the people, by rlie 
people, and for the people shall not 
perish from the earth?" (Abra- 
ham Lincoln.) 

19 — "Give me liberty or give me death ?" 
(Patrick Henry.) 

20 — "God reigns, and the government at 
Washington still lives?" (James 
Garfield.) 

21 — "Ask nothing but what is right, sub- 
mit to nothing wrong?" (Andrew 
Jackson. ) 

22— "All we ask is to be let alone ?" (Jef- 
ferson Davis.) 

23 — "A little more grape, Capt. Bragg?" 
(Gen. Taylor.) 

24 — "Don't fire until you see the whiles 
of their eyes ?" (Prescott.) 

25 — "Turn, boys, turn, we're going back V 
(Philip Sheridan.) 



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26 — "We will hold this town till we 
starve?" (Thomas.) 

27 — "Liberty and Union, one an insep- 
arable?" (Daniel Webster.) 

28 — "Here lies a man who was in the 
public service for fifty years and 
never attempted to deceive his 
countrymen?" (John Breckin- 
ridge. ) 

29 — "General Taylor never surrenders ?" 
(Crittenden.) 

30— "The principles of the government; 
I wish them carried out. I ask 
nothing more ?" (W. H. Harrison.) 

31 — "I have not yet begun to fight?" 
(Paul Jones.) 

32 — "I always talk better when I lie?" 
(James Madison.) 

33 — "My eyes have grown dim in the ser- 
vice of my country, but I have nev- 
er doubted her justice?" (George 
Washington. ) 

34 — "I was born in America; I lived 
there in the prime of my life ; but 
alas ! I can call no man in America 
my friend ?" (Benjamin Arnold.) 

35 — "Beware your northern laurels do 
not turn to southern willows ?" 
(Charles Lee.) 

36 — "Then and there the trumpet of the 
Revolution was sounded ?" (John 
(Adams.) 



FLOWER DAY. 



1 — Song— "O, I Love the Flowers." 

2 — What the Poets Say of the Flowers. 

3— Our Wild Flowers. ' 

4 — Song— "Little Thoughtful Pansies." 

5 — The Flower I Love Best. 

6 — Recitations — 

"The Flower." — Tennysoni 

"The Reaper and the Flowers." — 
Longfellow. 

"The Rose."— W atts. 

"Daffodils."— -Wordsworth. 
7— Song— "The Last Rose of Summer." 

— Moore. 



8— Reading— "The Death of the Flow- 
ers." — Bryant. 
9 — Autumn Flowers. 
10 — The Mission of Flowers. 
11 — Song— "A Rose-bud by My Early 

Walk." 
12 — Tropical Flowers. 
13 — Recitations — 

"Lily's BalV 7 — Anon. 

"The Rose by the Wayside."— 

Anon. 
"Flowers." — Longfellow. 
"Bring Flowers." — Mrs. Ilemans. 
14 — Reading — "Nothing But Leaves." 



FLOWER VOICES. 

{A Glass Exercise for Ten Pupils.) 

'HE children taking part in this exer- 
cise should be dressed in white, and 
wear red sashes extending from the right 
shoulder to the waist. The name of the 
flower represented should be fastened up- 
on the sash. It will add to the beauty of 
the exercise if each child wears a wreath 
of flowers. (The dandelion and "Jack in 
the Pulpit" should be represented by 
boys.) 

First Voice — The Violet : 
I'm only a violet, modest and shy, 
Reflecting the blue of summer's sky; 
I blossom in many a shady nook, 
Llidden away by a murmuring brook; 
Yet as perfectly happy and content am I 
As the winds that blow or the birds that 

.%; 

I hide away 'neath grass and leaves, 
I listen to songs of wandering bees; 
I grow by the oak of mighty power — 
And yet, am content, a wayside flower. 

Second Voice — The Rose: 
I'm called the sweetest flower that blows, 
And I am content to be a rose. 
I blossom by the hedges green, 
And in rich palaces am seen ; 
It very often is my lot 
To glow beside a sufferer's cot. 



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I've decked tke form of many a bride, 
And nestled closely by her side ; 
I've rested on the. snowy shroud, 
When all the people wept aloud. 
For many shifting scenes of life, 
My stem has felt the pruning knife, 
And yet of all the flowers that blows 
There's none that's happier than the rose. 

Third Voice — The Dandelion : 
They call me such a "common fellow," 
And make sport of my coat (of yellow) ; 
And yet I furnish ample means 
To provide for them the earliest "greens :" 
When made into medicinal flood 
I purify their sluggish blood ; 
Altho' I'm neither rich nor fine, 
I'm yet a useful dandelion. 

Fourth Voice — The Pansy: 
I am a flower that oft is sought, 
They say my meaning is for "thought;" 
I try to be a cheerful flower, 
That I may gladden every hour. 
By living up to thoughts like these 
I've earned the title of "heart's ease ;" 
Thus was I called long, long ago, 
When in old gardens I did blow; 
Now Pansy seems to be "more swell," 
But Heart's ease suits me equally well. 

Fifth Voice — Jack in the Pulpit: 
You'll think I am a queer flower creature 
When I announce that I'm a preacher ; 
But really now (you must not smile), 
For flowers need preaching all the while. 
There's many naughty things they do — 
But I shall not tell them unto you ; 
It never would become a "preacher" 
To speak evil of a fellow creature. 

Sixth Voice — The Daisy : 
I do assure you I'm a daisy, 
And never yet have been called lazy ; 
I keep my petals white and sweet, 
And then am trod on by your feet. 
Tho' many others o'er me tower, 
I am the earliest springtime flower; 
And yet receive a welcome bright 
From early morn till darkest night. 



Seventh Voice — The Myrtle : 
I am but the myrtle green, 
Ofttimes in churchyards I am seen; 
I creep upon the cold bare ground, 
And lend my freshness all around. 
I cannot sing of fame or beauty, 
I simply try to do my duty ; 
But I can furnish all, I ween, 
A robe of rich, unrivaled green. 

Eighth Voice — The Forget-me-not: 
In many a little garden plot 
Is found the blue forget-me-not, 
A tiny flower of heavenly blue, 
Which bears a message unto you ; 
Some friend who said forget-me-not, 
Seems to again appear on the spot, 
And you lift the sweet flower to your lips, 
While back o'er the past fond memory 

slips ; 
When regal flowers are all forgot 
You'll cherish the sweet forget-me-not. 

Ninth Voice — The Tulip: 
The tulip is a flower of beauty, 
Who little thought e'er gives to duty; 
When one possesses radiant color 
Other flowers somehow seem much duller ; 
But a tulip's pride is of short duration, 
And soon is shorn of any station ; 
Whene'er the winds begin to blow 
The radiant color's sure to go; 
And thus. is proven unto all, 
"Pride always goes before a fall." 

Tenth Voice — The Lily: 
I'm called the "regal" lily, tall, 
Because I tower over all ; 
'Tis said my life should e'er be pure, 
So long as earth and time endure; 
"Fit emblem of our risen Lord," 
This title men to me accord. 
May all your lives be pure and bright, 
As petals of the lily white. 

All Voices: 
Flowers of many a varied hue, 
Have a greeting given you ; 
You have listened to our voice- 
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From all great temptations flee, 
Live a life as pure as we ; 
In the end you will rejoice, 
When you hear the Greater Voice. 



BLOWER QUOTATIONS. 

I^HEE" the warm sun that brings 

seedtime 
and harvest has returned again, 
'Tis sweet to visit the still woods, where 
springs the first flower of the plain." 
- — H. W. Longfellow, 



"There is no death, the dust we tread 

Shall change beneath the summer 
showers, 
To gather grain or mellow fruit, 
Or rainbow-tinted flowers." 

— Lord Lytton. 

"One by one in the infinite meadows of 
heaven, 
Blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me- 
nots of the angels." 

— H. W. Longfellow. 

"The cowslips spring in the marshes, 
The roses bloom on the hill ; 
And beside the brook in the pasture 
The herds are, feeding at will." 

— Louise Chandler Moulton. 

"What's in a name ? that which we call a 
rose, 
By any other name' would smell as 
sweet." William Shakespeare. — 

"Full many a flower is born to blush un- 
seen, 
And waste its sweetness on the desert 



air. 



■Thomas Gray. 



"But pleasures are like poppies spread; 
You seize the flower : its bloom is shed." 
— Robert Burns. 

"You may break, you may shatter the vase 
if you will, 
Bui the scent of the roses will cling round 
it still." — Thomas Gray. 



"A primrose by the ,river's brim, 
A yellow primrose was to him, 
And it was nothing more." 

— William Wordsworth. 

"I bring fresh showers for the thirsting 
flowers, 
From the seas, and the stream." 

— Percy Shelley. 

"Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, 
That creep'th o'er ruins old." 

— Charles Dickens. 

"The rose that lives its little hour 
Is prized above the sculptured flower." 
—W. C. Bryant. 

"Time bears for youth a muffled bell, 
And hides his face in flowers." 

— J. G. Saxe. 

"The only amaranthine flower on earth is 
virtue." — William Cowper. 

"The night is mother of the day, 
The winter of the spring; 
And ever on the old decay, 
The greenest mosses cling." 

—J. G. Whittier. 

"Gather ye the rosebuds while ye may, 
Old time is still a-flying; 
And this same flower that smiles to-day, 
To-morrow may be dying." 

— Robert Herrick. 



A GEOGRAPHICAL RECREATION. 

Locate — 

1— The "Smoky Mountain." 

2— The "Gate of Tears." 

3— The "Great River." 

4— The "Boat Destroyer." 

5— The "Foaming River." 

6— The "Vale of Paradise." 

7— The "Black Mountain." 

8— The "Long Lake." 

9— The "Tortoise Islands." 
10— The "Snow-clad Range." 



GEOGRAPHICAL STORY. 



16 J 



■The "Mountain of Light." 






11— The "Mother of Waters." 
12— The "Father of Waters." 
13— The "Lake of Abundance." 
14— The "Kiver of Joy." 
15— The "Wind-blown Cloud." 
16- 

17— The "Kich Lake." 
18— The "Fruitful Mountain." 
19— The "Land of Dawn." 
20— The "Swift Water." 
21— The "Prospect Mountain." 
22— The "Cat's Throat." 
23— The "Hollow Land." 
24— The "Royal Mount." 
25— The "Beautiful Isle." 

AXSWEES TO ABOVE. 

1 — Mt. Popocatapetl. 

2 — Strait of Bab-el-mendeb. 

3 — Kio Grande. 

4 — Amazon. 

5— Ebro. 

6 — Valparaiso. 

7 — Montenegro. 

8 — Kennebec. 

9 — Galapagos. 
10 — Sierra ^Nevada. 
1 1 — Chesapeake. 
12 — Mississippi. 
1 3 — Memphr emagog. 
14 — Guadina. 
15— Wabash. 
1 6 — Lichtenf els. 
17— Baikal. 
18 — Cerro Gordo. 
19— Asia. 
20— Tallapoosa. 
2 1 — Montevideo. 
22— Cattesat. 
23— Holland. 
24 — Montreal. 
25— Belle Isle. 



GEOGUAPHICAL STORY. 

NE day cape of New Jersey (May) 
and river of Virginia (James) 
went to visit their cousins, cape of Mass. 



(Ann) and cape of Virginia (Henry). 
This visit was to extend over a fortni 
and many pleasant days had been planned ; 
the day after their arrival they were joined 
by river of Miss. (Pearl) and city of Ala- 
bama (Selma), schoolmates of cape of 
Mass. (Ann). 

The boys had planned a three-days' 
hunting trip in the mountains, where the 
girls were to accompany them. They 
loaded their camping outfit in a spring 
wagon and departed just as the sun ap- 
peared in the east, thus avoiding the heat 
of the day for traveling. Arriving at their 
destination they pitched their tent on the 
river of Kentucky (Green), branch of a 
beautiful stream; this the girls declared 
to be river of Michigan (Grand). After 
stretching the tent and unloading the sup- 
plies, the boys immediately departed on 
a hunt, while the girls were left to amuse 
themselves according to fancy. They de- 
termined to attempt fishing that they 
might have fresh fish for lunch. They 
met with success, but found that rivers of 
California (Eels) were most plentiful. 
While walking along the shore cape of 
!N". J. (May), saw a horrid river of Idaho 
(Snake) crawling through the grass. 
Eiver of Miss. (Pearl) had found some 
pretty rivers of Montana (Mussel Shells) 
which she said they would retain as sou- 
venirs of the occasion. Cape of Mass. 
(Ann) found a great quantity of city of 
S. Dak. (Deadwood), which they dragged 
into camp, and soon had a roaring camp- 
fire. 

In the meantime the boys were having 
rare sport. In these mountains roamed 
many wild animals of all descriptions. 
River of Va. (James) soon discovered a 
huge river of Idaho (Bear) skulking be- 
hind a mountain of Maine (Haystack). 
Cape of Va. (Henry) saw a city of ZsTew 
York (Buffalo) in the distance, but they 
did not attempt to bag such large game. 
River of Va. (James) shot a river of Wis- 
consin (Black) bird, having a beautiful 
city of Minnesota (Red Wing) ; this he 
determined to carry into camp and present 



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to city of Alabama (Selma). Next they 
captured a river of Minn. (Pigeon), 
which was caught beneath a lake of S. 
Dak. (Big Stone), which had fallen from a 
cleft. Cape of Va. (Henry) killed a wild 
lake of Oregon (Goose) of which he was 
very proud. Being very hungry they de- 
termined to return to camp for luncheon, 
which the girls had prepared. The re- 
freshments consisted of river of Montana 
(Milk), cold river of N. Dak. (Heart), 
canned river of Florida (Pease), and 
river of Idaho (Salmon), and some 
buns which they had purchased of a moun- 
tain of Wash. (Baker) before leaving 
home. The boys were full of cape of 
Washington (Flattery) of their cooking, 
but river of Miss. (Pearl) declared that 
the river of N. Dak. (Heart) required 
more river of Arizona (Salt), which river 
of Va. (James) hastened to give her. 

After luncheon the boys told of their 
hunt, while they made preparations to re- 
new it on the morrow. They poured their 
river of Montana (Powder) into a river 
of Montana (Big Horn) that it might be 
kept dry. Next they collected some rivers 
of 111. (Rocks) and all stood on the banks 
and threw them into the stream. They 
found some curious river of Ga. (Flint), 
river of 111. (Rock), which the boys used 
in striking a fire. As night Approached 
they sat around their blazing campfire and 
told stories or sang such songs as river of 
Florida (Suwanee river), and On the 
Banks of the river of Indiana (Wabash), 
or on the Lake of Louisiana (Pontchar- 
train). 

At the end of three days they returned 
home declaring their trip to have been a 
perfect success in every way. 



A DAY WITH HOLMES. 



■Song. 



5 — Recitations — 
"The Boys." 

"The Chambered Nautilus." 
" "The Last Leaf." 
6— Reading— "The One-Hoss Shay." 
7 — Song. 
8 — History of the Frigate Constitution 

(Old Ironsides). 
9 — Recitation — "Old Ironsides." 
10— Reading— "The Race of Life," from 
Autocrat at the. Breakfast Table. 
1 1 — Recitations — 
"My Aunt." 
"Bill and Joe." 
"The Pilgrim's Vision." 
"My Aunt Tibatha." 
12 — Closing Song. 






2 — Biography of Holmes. 
3 — Quotations from Holmes. 
4 — Song. 



GEMS FROM HOLMES. 

"Then here's to our boyhood, its gold and 

its gray, 
The snows of its winter, the smiles of its 

May; 
And when we have done with our life 

lasting toys — 
Dear Father take care of thy children — 

the boys." — The Boys. 

"Nail to the mast her holy flag, 
Spread every threadbare sail; 
And give her to the god of storms, 
The lightning and the gale." 

— Old Ironsides. 

"Call him not old, whose vision and brain 
Holds o'er the past its undivided reign; 
For him in vain the envious seasons roll, 
Who bears eternal summer in his soul." 

"O Father ! grant thy love divine, 
To make these mystic temples thine; 
When wasting age and wearying strife 
Have sapped the leaning walls of life — 
When darkness gathers over all, 
And the last tottering pillars fall — 
Take the poor dust, thy mercy warms, 
And mould it into heavenly forms." 
— The Living Temple. 

"Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule, 
His most of all whose kingdom is a 
school." — The Village School, 



OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 



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"Two paths lead upward from below, 
And angels wait above, 
Who count each burning life-drop's flow, 
Each falling tear of Love." 

— The Two Armies. 

"If singing breath or echoing chord, 
To every hidden pang were given, 
What endless melodies were poured, 
As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven." 
— The Voiceless. 

"The race that shortens its weapons 

lengthens its boundaries." 
— The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table. 

"And if I should live to be 
The last leaf upon the tree, 

In the spring; 
Let them smile as I do now, 
At the old forsaken bough, 
Where I cling." 

— The Last Leaf. 

"The outward forms the inner man reveal, 
We guess the pulp before we eat the peel." 

— On Dress. 

"There breathes no being but has some 
pretense 
To that fine instinct called poetic sense." 

— Poesy. 

"Lords of creation, whom your ladies rule, 
The world's great masters, when you're 

out of school, 
Learn the brief moral of our evening's 

play: 
Man has his rule, but woman has her 



way. 



—This Is It. 



"Thus drifting afar to the dim-vaulted 
caves, 
Where life and its ventures are laid ; 
The dreamers who gaze while we battle 
the waves, 
May see us in sunshine or shade. 
Yet true to our course, though our shadow 
grow dark, 



We'll trim our broad sail as before, 
And stand by the rudder thai governs the 
bark, 
Nor ask how we look from the shore." 

"God bless you, gentlemen! learn to give 
Money to colleges while you live; 
Don't be silly and think you'll try 
To bother the colleges when you die; 
With codicil this, and codicil that, 
That Knowledge may starve while Law 

grows fat; 
For there never was a pitcher that 

wouldn't spill, 
And there's always a flaw in a donkey's 

will." 

— Parson TurrelVs Legacy. 



OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 

^IVEK W. HOLMES was born at 
Cambridge, Mass., August 29, 1809 ; 
he was the third of a family of five child- 
ren. 

He began to write as a school-boy, and 
continued until the end of his life; at 
the age of twenty he graduated from Har- 
vard University, then took up the study of 
law; this, however, he soon abandoned 
for medicine. He studied in Europe and 
took his degree as Doctor of Medicine at 
Cambridge in 1836. Two years later he 
was appointed to the chair of Anatomy 
and Physiology at Dartmouth University, 
holding this position until 1847, when he 
accepted a similar one at Harvard, which 
he held until 1892. 

While a student at Harvard, Holmes 
contributed to the college periodicals; in- 
deed he is famed for his college poems. 
When but twenty-one years of age he wrote 
his famous poem, "Old Ironsides," which 
was the means of saving the old frigate 
"Constitution" from destruction. His 
first volume of poems was published in 
1836. In Holmes we have an example of 
a literary man who did solid work as a 
teacher and physician, in spite of his suc- 
cess in literature; among his earlier po- 



IMS 



HISTORICAL SCENES, 



ems were "Poetry," a metrical essay; 
"Terpsichore;" "Urania," and "The Bal- 
ance of Allusions." That Holmes was a 
mirth provoker is proven by his poems, 
"The One-Hoss Shay," "My Aunt," "The 
Last Leaf," "My Aunt Tibatha," etc. 

In 1858 appeared "The Autocrat at the 
Breakfast Table," later "The Professor at 
the Breakfast Table," and yet later "The 
Poet at the Breakfast Table." 

"Elsie Venner" and "The Guardian 
Angel," two excellent novels, appeared 
between 1860 and 1868. 

Holmes died at Cambridge October 7, 
1894. 

HISTORICAL SCENES. 

fHE last night of the month of May 
an army is resting peacefully beside 
a placid stream; a black cloud appears on 
the horizon — it grows larger, blacker, 
denser; the thunder rolls, the lightning 
flashes, and the rain begins to fall ; fiercer 
and yet fiercer grows the storm ; the. water 
falls in torrents, and the peaceful stream 
becomes a roaring river, the lowlands are 
flooded, and the army find themselves 
encamped in a flood. Across the hill, the 
ever-vigilant enemy are encamped; they 
see their advantage and act accordingly; 
they fall with tremendous force upon the 
adversary; for a time they sweep every- 
thing before them and victory seems cer- 
tain. But the assaulted army is recover- 
ing from its surprise, it rallies on the tot- 
tering bridges, and checks the advance. 
The leader of the assaulting army is 
seriously wounded and borne from the 
field. This, together with the darkness of 
the night, ends the conflict. In the morn- 
ing the attack is renewed but the loss of 
their leader has proven fatal, and they are 
repulsed and forced to retreat in disorder. 
— Battle of Fair Oaks. 

A beautiful and luxurious home in the 
heart of a large city — 'tis the morning 
hour and breakfast is waiting in the sun- 
ny dining-room, a babe slumbers peace- 
fully in its cradle. The family now 



gather about the board ; the father with a 
care-worn expression, the mother happy 
and smiling. A servant enters, bearing a 
note on a silver tray; this he presents to 
his master, then quietly withdraws. The 
man seizes the message, reads it rapidly 
and springs to his feet, hastily embracing 
his wife, he tells of the deadly peril sur- 
rounding him, kisses the sleeping babe, 
darts out of the house, mounts a horse and 
dashes through an unfrequented path to 
the river, jumps into a boat and is swiftly 
rowed toward a waiting vessel. 

Back in the luxurious home the wife is 
lying in a dead faint, beside the child, who 
is now sobbing piteously. — Escape of Ar- 
nold. 

'Tis the month of April, the tender 
green of the awakening foliage and the 
balmy breeze indicate that Spring is come. 
It seems that all should be peace and hap- 
piness, but such is not the case. 

Hurrying, here and there, seeking some 
place of refuge from the enemy, which are 
harassing them from all sides, are the 
wreck of a once proud army; food there 
is none, and their only means of subsist- 
ence is that provided by the shoots of the 
young trees by the wayside. Like a hunted 
fox the leader turns hither and thither, 
but is at last completely surrounded by 
the enemy. At once he determines to at- 
tempt one last stand; this he does. The 
cavalry of the opposing forces move aside 
and reveal dense bodies of troops drawn 
up in battle array. Seeing that resistance 
is in vain, the noble general lays down his 
arms and accepts the terms of surrender. — 
Surrender of Yorhtown. 

A stormy Autumn day; a little vessel 
lies at anchor in a cheerless rocky harbor ; 
within its cabin a little company are gath- 
ered, returning thanks to Almighty God 
for His mercies and deliverance. — Land- 
ing of the Pilgrim Fathers. 

A sunny September Sunday, in the year 
1675. The Puritan fathers and their 
families have gathered in the rude church 
for worship. The solemn stillness is sud- 



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denly broken by the savage warcry, the 
Indians are upon them. Men seize their 
guns and rush out of the building, only to 
find themselves surrounded by the pitiless 
foe. All seems lost, everything is con- 
fusion. Suddenly a strange old man ap- 
pears among them, calling out quick com- 
mands, which are implicitly obeyed. The 
enemy is routed and in the confusion that 
follows the deliverer disappears. — Indian 
Attack on Hadley, Mass. 

The stars were shedding their pale light, 
over a fortified city, on a high bluff by a 
river's side; within an army felt perfect 
safety; absolute, silence reigned safe for 
the picket's tread. Below, beneath the 
walls of the city, the vessels of the enemy 
lay at anchor ; the city above them seemed 
impregnable, but the eyes of a wily scout 
had discovered a narrow path, unguarded, 
up which but one man at a time could as- 
cend ; up this path the enemy filed, swift- 
ly, quietly, and at daybreak stood in battle 
array. — Capture of Quebec. 

Down a city's street passes an awkward, 
ungainly youth, dressed in coarse home- 
spun clothing, the pockets of which are 
bulging with bundles (his extra clothing). 
Under each arm is tucked a loaf of bread 
while he munches a third. In a nearby 
doorway stands a young girl laughing at 
the awkward youth. — Benjamin Franklin 
Entering Philadelphia. 

'Twas Christmas night, a fierce storm of 
sleet and hail was raging. A river of 
floating ice separated two armies ; one 
cosily ensconced in warm winter quarters, 
enjoyed the Christmas cheer, little fear- 
ing the worn, bedraggled troops encamped 
in comfortless quarters opposite. A 
Christmas supper was in progress, wine 
was flowing, and the merry tread of danc- 
ing feet was heard. Suddenly a messenger 
bore the news that the enemy was upon 
them; all was confusion — in the midst of 
it all — the enemy confronted them, and 
all was lost. Surrender was imperative. 
{Capture of Trenton.) 




HISTORICAL POEMS. 

have collected the following list 
of historical poems, believing that 
it will be of use to both teacher and pupil 
in the study and presentation of this 
branch of study: 

"Chippewa Legend" — Lowell. 

"Bridal of Pennacook" — Whittier. 

a Sir Humphrey Gilbert" — Longfellow. 

"Vision of Columbus" — Barlow. 

"Columbus"— Lowell. 

"Damsel of Darien" — Simms. 

"Robinson of Ley den" — Holmes. 

"Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" — Mrs. 
Hemans. 

"Pocahontas" — Mrs. Sigourney. 

"Courtship of Miles Standish"— Longfel- 
low. 

"Evangeline" — Longfellow. 

"Ode to Jamestown" — Paulding. 

"Gertrude of Wyoming" — Campbell. 

"Wyoming"— Halleck. 

"Song of Marion's Men" — Bryant. 

"The Rising of Seventy-six" — Bryant. 

"Paul Revere's Ride" — Longfellow. 

"Pulaski's Banner"- 

"American Flag" — Drake. 

"Columbia"— Dwight. 

"Rangers" — Whittier. 

"Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill"- 
Holmes. 

"In War Time"— Whittier. 

"Biglow Papers" — Lowell. 

"Kentucky Bell" — Anon. 



-Longfellow. 



A DAY WITH WASHINGTON IRVING. 

( Suggestive Programme. ) 

(April 3, 1783.) 
1 — Song. 

2 — Quotations from Irving. 
3 — Biography of Irving (class exercise). 
4 — Description — Sunnyside. 
4— Sketch— "Rip Van Winkle." 
5 — Reading — Portion of "Alhambra." 
6— Story— "Ichabod Crane's Ride." 
7— Pen Picture— "Sleepy Hollow." 
8 — Essay — Irving's cotemporaries. 



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A DAY WITH WASHINGTON IRVING. 



9 — Heading — "A Portion of Christmas." 
10— Song. 

BIOGRAPHY OF IRVING. 

(Class Exercise.) 

Birth of Irving. — Washington Irving 
was born in New York, April 3, 1783. 
He was the son of English parents, his 
father being a lawyer by profession; his 
mother was a beautiful English girl, the 
granddaughter of an English curate. 
Though of English parentage the Iryings 
were patriots of the highest order, Mrs. 
Irving often feeding American prisoners 
in New York from her own table. She also 
visited the sick soldiers and provided 
clothing and other necessaries for them. 

When her little son was born, in 1783, 
she said: "Washington's work is done, 
but his name shall continue to live in my 
son; he shall be called Washington Irv- 
ing," and so the little one was named. 

Childhood of Irving. — The father of 
Irving was a stern Scotch Presbyterian, 
his mother was a tender-hearted Episco- 
palian, and little Washington was con- 
firmed in the latter church while yet very 
young to avoid the stern and rigid views 
of his father. 

While Washington was yet a little boy 
his nurse took him to New York city, then 
the capital of the United States. The 
nurse saw President Washington enter a 
store; she followed him and, walking up 
to him, said: "Here's a bairn who was 
named after you." The great man placed 
his hand upon the. child's head and blessed 
him. 

Little Washington was a very mis- 
chievous boy, and loved all games and 
sports dearly. It is said that his dear 
mother often reproved him by saying, 
"Oh, Washington, if you were only good." 

The Youth. — At the age of sixteen 
Irving entered a law office and began the 
study of law, but he much preferred lit- 
erature, and spent much more of his time 
reading Chaucer and Spencer than law- 
books. He finally abandoned law and be- 



gan his literary work, his first work being 
to edit the "Analectic Magazine" in Phila- 
delphia. 

Manhood of Irving. — Because of failing 
health Irving was compelled to travel 
much. He visited England and became 
acquainted with Sir Walter Scott, Camp- 
bell Jeffery, and Moore. He also visited 
Spain and wrote from materials gathered 
there the "Companions of Columbus," 
"The Conquest of Granada," and "The 
Alhambra." 

While at home in America he published 
Sketch Book," "Legend of Sleepy Hol- 
low," "The Pride of the Village," "Kip 
Van Winkle," and "Tales of a Traveler," 
his last literary work completed in his 
eightieth year being "Life of Washing- 
ton." 

Death of Irving. — Irving died at his 
home, Sunnyside, in dreamy Sleepy Hol- 
low. Here he had made his home with 
nieces, never having married, remaining 
true to the memory of an early attachment 
which was blighted by death. Irving died 
very suddenly of heart failure, November 
28, 1859. 

QUOTATIONS FROM IRVING. 

"The song of the bird, the murmur of 
the stream, the. breathing fragrance of 
Spring, the soft voluptuousness of Sum- 
mer, the golden pomp of Autumn, earth 
with its mantle of refreshing green and 
heaven with its deep, delicious blue and 
its cloudy magnificence — all fill us with 
mute and exquisite delight." 

"The last ray of sunshine departed, the 
bats began to flit by in the twilight, the 
road grew dimmer and dimmer to the view, 
and nothing appeared stirring in it but 
now and then a peasant lagging homeward 
from his labor." — The Spectre Bride- 
groom. 

"The passing bell tolls its knell in every 
ear; it steals with its pervading melan- 
choly over every hill and vale, and saddens 
all the landscape." — Rural Funerals. 



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"Man is the creature of interest and 
ambition, his nature leads him forth into 
the struggle and battle of the world." — 
The Broken Heart. 

"No hero of ancient or modern days can 
surpass the Indian in his lofty contempt, 
of death and the fortitude with which he 
sustains his crudest affliction." — Traits of 
Indian Character. 

"It is a great thing to have one day in 
the year, at least, when you are sure of 
being welcome, wherever you go, and of 
having as it were the whole world thrown 
open to you." — Christmas Day. 

" There is a shocking, levity in some 
natures which leads them to sport with 
awful and hallowed things, and there are 
base, minds which delight in revenge on 
the illustrious dead the abject homage and 
grovelling severity which they pay the 
living." — Westminster Abbey. 

"As a man travels on, however, in the 
journey of life his objects of wonder daily 
diminish, and he is continually finding 
out some very simple cause for some of 
marvel." — Sketch Book. 




LITERARY RECREATION. 

)HAT American author when a boy 
was so fond of the theater that he 
would steal away early in the evening to 
a play, go home in time for family pray- 
ers at nine o'clock, then go to his room, 
climb out of the window, slide down the 
roof to a back alley, and go back to the 
theater to see the end of the play? — 
Washington Irving. 

What author when a child made nearly 
all the furniture in his father's house, be- 
cause they were too poor to buy it? — 
Hans Christian Andersen. 

What author was so beautiful of face 
that on meeting an old gypsy woman in a 



lonely wood path, she cried out, "Are you 
a man or an angel?" — Nathaniel Haw- 
thorne. 

Who was the wonderful Swiss scientist 
that as a boy made a large collection of 
fishes, which he kept in a stone basin which 
he built in his father's yard for that pur- 
pose? — Louis Agassiz. 

What author was given a chair, made 
from the wood of "a spreading chestnut 
tree," by the children of his native city ? — 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 

What poet as a school-boy spent his time 
in scribbling verses on his slate, rather 
than in doing his school work? — John 
Greenleaf Whittier. 

What great novelist's childhood was sad- 
dened by the visits to his father who was 
an inmate of dreary Marshalsea prison 
because of his debts? — Charles Dickens. 

What autfforess when a child ate some 
fine tulip buds which had been presented 
her mother by a dear friend, thinking 
them to be onions? — Harriet Beecher 
Stowe. 

What poet when but four years of age 
made a little pulpit in his nursery, and, 
using his apron for a gown, preached real 
sermons to an imaginary audience? — 
Charles Kingsley. 

What author spent but two years of his 
life at school, because of ill-health? — 
Edward Eggleston. 

What author as a boy spent one year 
in a log cabin, and afterward wrote a 
book descriptive of this childhood ex- 
perience ? — William D. Howells. 

What author when a boy burned off his 
eyebrows by setting fire to some gun- 
powder with a burning glass, during one 
of his chemical experiments? — Edward 
Everett Hale. 

What authoress kept a school in a barn 
when but sixteen years of age? — Louisa 
M. Alcott. 



m 



LINCOLN DAY EXERCISE. 



What author when a youth was a steam- 
bout pilot on the Mississippi river ? — Sam- 
uel Clemens (Mark Twain). 



LINCOLN DAY EXERCISES. 

1— Song— "Tramp, The Boys Are 

M arching. " 
2 — Sketch of the Life of Lincoln. 
3 — Song — "Marching Through Georgia." 
4 — Recitations — 

"Kentucky Belle." — Anon. 
"The American Flag." — Drake. 
"Song of the Camp."— Taylor, 
5— Song — "Battle Cry of Freedom." 
6 — Description — "Dixie Land." 
7 — Heading — "Bonny's Reprieve." 
8 — History — Our Flag. 
9— Song— "The Red, White and Blue." 
10 — Recitations — 

"The Picket Guard."— Beers. 
"Sheridan's Ride."— Reade. 
"Barbara Freitchie." — Whittier. 
11 — Song — "Battle Hymn of the Repub- 
lic." 
12 — Contrast, Northern and Southern 

Life. 
13 — Description — Lincoln's Tomb. 
14 — Closing Song — "America." 

SAYINGS OF LINCOLN. 

"All that I am and all that I hope to be 
I owe to my angel mother." 

"A house divided against itself cannot 
stand. I believe the government cannot 
endure permanently, half slave and half 

free." 

"In every event of life it is right makes 

might." 

"If our sense of duty forbid slavery, 
then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly 
and effectively." 

"Gold is good in its place, but living, 
patriotic men are better than gold." 

"Let us have faith that right makes 
might; and in that faith let us, to the 
end, dare to do our duty as we understand 
it." 



"It is no pleasure to me to triumph over 
any one, but I give thanks to the Almighty 
for the evidence of the people's resolution 
to stand by free government and the rights 
of humanity." 

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, 
capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, 
and could never have existed if labor had 
not first existed." 

"I claim not to have controlled events, 
but confess plainly that events have con- 
trolled me." % 

"No men living are more worthy to be 
trusted than those who toil up from pov- 
erty." . 



LINCOLN DAY EXERCISE. 

(A Class Exercise.) 
First Pupil: — 

Abraham Lincoln was born in Harden 
Co., Kentucky, February 12, 1809. His 
father being Thomas Lincoln and his 
mother Nancy Hanks. 

Thomas Lincoln was a restless, thriftless 
man, never having a regular occupation, 
but living principally by doing odd jobs 
of all sorts. The home in Kentucky was a 
wretched cabin, open at one end and ex- 
posed to the elements. In this humble 
abode Abraham Lincoln first beheld the 
light of day. The mother of Lincoln died 
when he was nine years of age. 

Second Pupil : — 

Thirteen months after the death of his 
wife, Thomas Lincoln married a widow 
with whom he had been in love before he 
married Nancy Hanks. This "new" 
mother was kindness itself to little Abra- 
ham and his sister. She found these 
children dirty and poorly clad. She soon 
brought a reformation in the family as she 
was a woman of unceasing energy. 

Third Pupil: — 

Abraham Lincoln as a boy was fond of 
hunting and fishing. His schooling was 
very meager. In 1816 the family removed 
to Ohio. This state was then a wild region 



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infested by wild animals. Through the 
sparsely inhabited wilderness Abraham 
and his sister walked four miles to school. 
Here. Abraham learned to "read, write and 
cipher." His step-mother encouraged and 
helped him in his studies; she was very 
fond of Abraham and this love endured 
until his death. It was not his own mother 
but his step-mother of whom he said, "All 
that I am, I owe to my angel mother." 

Fourth Pupil: — 

In youth, Lincoln was not prepossessing 
in appearance. He was more than six feet 
tall, very ungainly, and had enormous 
feet and hands. He dressed in coarse 
home-spun, home-made clothing; as a 
rule, his trowsers were several inches too 
short, owing to his rapid growth. 

Although he was overgrown and awk- 
ward yet he was of a genial temperament 
and was always in a good humor. 

Fifth Pupil :— 

Abraham Lincoln was very fond of 
reading; his library was very small in- 
deed, but he read everything that came in 
his reach. During the. day he would lie 
in a tree or in the loft of the cabin and 
read, and at night sit in the firelight to 
read, write and cipher, the last being done 
on the wooden fire-shovel. He was so fond 
of reading that he borrowed a law-book 
(The Statutes of Indiana) and read and 
re-read it many times — thus was obtained 
his first knowledge of law. He had a strong 
memory and loved to memorize selections, 
which he spoke in public. 

Sixth Pupil: — 

At twenty-one years of age Lincoln with 
his parents emigrated to Illinois. Abra- 
ham now being of age determined making 
his own way in the world. Two years later 
came the Blackhawk War and he offered 
himself as a volunteer ; thus began his ser- 
vices for his country. In 1832, the year of 
Jackson's second election as President, be- 
gan Lincoln's career as a politician and 
orator; he was now a candidate for the 



office of representative — he was not 
elected. He next began life as a dry goods 
merchant, but failed; then he devoted 
himself to the study of law. In 1833 he 
was appointed postmaster of New Salem, 
111. 

Seventh Pupil: — 

In 1834 Lincoln again became a candi- 
date for the legislature, and was this time 
elected. While in the legislature he first 
met Stephen A. Douglas, who was to be 
his future opponent for the highest office 
in the land though neither of them 
dreamed of this fact at that time. Now 
began the slave agitation and Lincoln be- 
came a strong advocate for freedom. In 
1839 he, with the capitol, moved to Spring- 
field, and henceforth established himself 
in a law office at this place. At this time 
he was very poor and much in debt ; it is 
said that a friend fed and clothed him at 
this time. In 1839 occurred the famous 
"Lincoln-Douglas" debate. 

Eighth Pupil: — 

In 1842 Lincoln married Miss Mary 
Todd, of Kentucky. In 1846 he was again 
elected to Congress, and in 1860 became a 
successful candidate for the presidency. 
His career as President was marked with 
many important events, the greatest being 
the Civil War, during which he issued his 
famous Emancipation Proclamation which 
freed the slaves. 

The death of Lincoln occurred at Ford's 
Theater, Washington, D. C, April 14, 
1865. He was assassinated by John 
Wilkes Booth, an actor. He died the 
morning of the 15th, and thus went our 
one of the greatest lights of history, but 
his influence will never die. 



LONGFELLOW EXERCISE. 

1— Song— "Excelsior." 

2 — Concert Kecitation — "A Psalm of 

Life." 
3 — Biography of Longfellow. 



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LONGFELLOW DAY. 



4 — Recitations — 

"The Children's Hour." 
"Killed at the Ford." 
"Footsteps of Angels." 
5 — Paraphrase — "The Village Black- 
smith." 
6— Song— "The Bridge." 
7 — History of the Bridge. 
8 — Character Sketch — "Evangeline." 
9 — Description — "Craigie House." 
10— "Paul Kevere's Hide." 
11— Contrast-— "John Alden" vs. "Miles 

Standish." 
12— Song— "The Rainy Day." 
13 — Quotations from Longfellow. 
14 — Recitations— 

"The Old Clock on the Stairs." 
"The Reaper and the Flowers." 
"The Light of Stars." 
15— Reading— "The Quadroon Girl." 
16 — Pen Picture — "Hiawatha" and 

"Laughing Water." 
17 — Concert Recitation — "The Day is 
Done." 



LONGFELLOW DAY. 

(A Class Exercise.) 

Longfellow's Birth. — Henry Wadsworth 
Longfellow, the distinguished American 
poet, was born at Portland, Maine, Feb- 
ruary 27, 1807. He was the second son 
of Judge Stephen Longfellow, a federalist 
and member of Congress — 1822-24 — and 
Zilpah, daughter of Peleg Wadsworth, 
adjutant general of Massachusetts during 
the Revolutionary War, and a descendant 
of John Alden. 

Longfellow's Childhood. — Henry Long- 
fellow is remembered by his brothers and 
sisters as a lively boy, kind-hearted and 
affectionate — the sunlight of the home — 
true, high-minded and noble. But with all 
his liveliness he hated loud noises and 
begged his nurse to put cotton in his ears 
on the Fourth of July. As a boy Long- 
fellow loved books, one of his early favor- 
ites being the Sketch Book by Washington 



Irving. He was also very fond of Milton's 
poems. 

Longfellow's School Days. — At the age 
of fourteen Longfellow entered Bowdoin 
College; while a student in this college 
he began his literary career. Before he 
reached his eighteenth year he wrote some 
of his most popular earlier poems, among 
which were: "Woods in Winter," "The 
Spirit of Poetry," "Hymns of the Mora- 
vian Nuns," and "Sunrise on the Hills." 
He was a hard-working student and when 
he graduated from Bowdoin, at the age, of 
eighteen, it was with high honors. Frank- 
lin Pierce, afterward President of the 
United States, and Hawthorne, the novel- 
ist, were illustrious classmates of Long- 
fellow. 

Longfellow's Travels. — After graduat- 
ing at Bowdoin, Longfellow spent three 
years in France, Spain, Italy, and Ger- 
many, in view of fitting himself more 
fully for the professorship of modern lan- 
guages, which had been offered him at 
Bowdoin. In 1835 he made a second tour 
of Europe, visiting Denmark, Sweden, 
Holland and Switzerland. During this 
tour he made a special study of languages 
of the north. In 1836 he became professor 
-of modern languages at Harvard Univer- 
sity and held this position until 1854. 

Longfellow's Marriage. — Mr. Longfel- 
low -was twice married — in 1831 to Mary 
Storer Potter of Portland, Me. ; she died 
four years later in Holland. In 1843 he 
married Francis E. Appleton of Boston, 
Mass. His second wife, died under most 
distressing circumstances, in 1861 — while 
playing with their children her clothing 
caught fire and she burned to death. It 
was shortly after this that the sad though 
beautiful poem, "The Bridge," was writ- 
ten ; "the sadness and longing" spoken of 
being caused by her death. 

Longfellow's Writings.— Among the 
most popular of Longfellow's poems are: 
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"The Courtship of Miles Standish," "The 
Builders," "Tales of a Wayside Inn/' etc. 
Besides his poetical works Longfellow 
wrote excellent prose, as illustrated in his 
"Hyperion" and "Outre Mer." As a 
writer he was honored above all his co- 
temporaries. He was honored by degrees 
from Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford 
Universities. His bust has been placed in 
the poet's corner of Westminster Abbey. 
All his writings are distinguished for their 
simplicity, grace and refinement. 

Longfellow's Death. — Mr. Longfellow 
died at Cambridge, Mass., March 24, 1882. 
At seventy-five years of age, beloved and 
mourned by a nation, he passed away. He 
left two sons and three daughters, honored 
by the fruits of a noble life. As long as 
time shall endure shall America sing the 
praises of her best-loved bard. 

GLEANINGS FROM LONGFELLOW. 

"Into each life some rain must fall, 
Some days must be dark and dreary." 
— The Rainy Day. 

"Our lives are rivers, gliding free 
To that unfathomed, boundless sea, 
The silent grave." 

— Translations. 

"Silently, one by one, in the infinite mead- 
ows of heaven, 
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me- 
nots of the angels." 

— Evangeline. 

"Let us then be up and doing, 
With a heart for any fate ; 
Still achieving, still pursuing, 
Learn to labor, and to wait." 

— A Psalm of Life. 

"Thus at the, flaming forge of life 
Our fortunes must be wrought; 
Thus on its burning anvil forged 
Each burning deed and thought." 

— The Village Blacksmith. 

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"And the night shall be filled with music, 
And the cares that infest the day 



Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, 
And as silently steal away." 

— The Day is Done. 

"We have not wings, we cannot soar, 
But we have feet to scale and climb 
By slow degrees, by more and more, 
The cloudy summits of our time." 
— Ladder of St. Augustine. 

"Ah, what would the world be to us 
If the children were no more ; 
We should dread the desert behind us, 
Worse than the dark before." 

— Children. 

"Labor with what zeal we will, 
Something still remains undone; 
Something uncompleted still 
Waits the rising of the sun." 

— Something Left Undone. 

"There is a reaper whose name is Death, 
And with his sickle keen 
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, 
And the flowers that grow between." 
— The Reaper and the Flowers. 

"O fear not in a world like this, 
And thou shalt know ere long; 
Know how divine a thing it is 
To suffer and be strong." 

— Light of Stars. 

"Bear through sorrow, wrong and ruth, 
In thy heart the dew of youth; 
On thy lips the smile of truth." 

— Maidenhood. 

"Nothing useless is or low, 
Each thing in its place is best." 

— The Builders. 



A DAY WITH LOWELL. 

1— Song— "This Life is What We Make 

It." 
2 — Biography of Lowell. 
3 — Recitations — 

"The Finding of the Lyre." 

"Longing." 

"The First Snow Fall." 
4 — Pen Picture — Elmwood. 






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5 — Pantomime — "Kitchen Scene of Big- 
low Papers." 
6 — Music. 

7 — Reading — "A Keverie." 
8 — Recitations — 

"The Changling." 
"Beaver Brook." 
a The Heritage." 
9 — Quotations from Lowell. 
10 — Synopsis — "Vision of Sir Launfal." 
11— Reading— "The Two Gunners." 
12 — Closing Song. 

QUOTATIONS FROM LOWELL. 

"Not what we give, but what we share — 
For the gift without the giver is bare; 
Who gives himself with his alms feeds 

three — 
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and 

me." — Vision of Sir Launfal. 

"New occasions teach new duties; Time 
makes ancient good uncouth; 
They must upward still, and onward, 
who would keep abreast of Truth." 
— The Present Crisis. 

"They are slaves who fear to speak 
For the fallen and the weak." 

— Stanzas on Freedom. 

"Think not in death my love would ever 
cease ; 
If thou wast false, more need there is for 
me still to be true." 

— A Legend of Brittany. 

"Hope is Truth — the future giveth 
More than present takes away, 
And the soul forever liveth 

Nearer God from day to day." 

— The Rose. 

"For whom the heart of man shuts out, 

Sometimes the heart of God takes in." 

— The Forlorn. 

"A little of thy steadfastness, 
Rounded with leafy gracefulness, 
Old oak, give me." 

— The Beggar. 



"The skies are fair 
To all whose souls are fair within." 
— Qoo, Little BooTce. 

"High natures must be thunder-scarred 
With many a searing wrong." 

— In Sadness. 

"Knowledge doth only widen love ; 
The stream, that lone and narrow rose, 
Doth, deepening ever, onward move, 
And with an even current flows 
Calmer and calmer to the close." 

— Love's Altar. 

"Nothing in Nature weeps its lot, 
Nothing, save man, abides in memory, 

Forgetful that the Past is what 
Ourselves may choose the coming time 
to be." — Sphinx. 

"He's true to God who's true to man." 
— Capture of a Fugitive Slave. 

PEN PICTURE,, "ELMWOOD. 

This three-storied colonial mansion, 
standing near Brattle Street, Cambridge, 
was built in 1767 by Thomas Oliver, the 
last royal lieutenant governor before the 
Revolution. Like other houses in "Tory 
Row" it was abandoned by its owners. 
Soon after it was purchased by Elbridge 
Gerry, governor of Massachusetts and 
fifth vice-president of the United States. 
It next became the property of Dr. Lowell, 
father of the poet, and afterward was the 
home of the poet until his death. The 
grounds on which Elmwood is located ex- 
tend almost to the gate of Mt. Auburn 
cemetery, where the remains of the poet 
now rest. He speaks of the cemetery in 
his poem, "The First Snowfall," in the 
words : 

"I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn, 
Where a little headstone stood ; 
How the flakes were folding it softly, 
As did robins the 'babes in the wood.' " 

The ample grounds surrounding Elm- 
wood have an abundant growth of trees, 
most of them planted as a screen from 




CHRIST IS RISEN. 

An Easter Day Exercise. 

(See page 102.) 




THE WANDERING MUSICIANS. 
An. "Italian Social" is good. Try it. 
(Eor description see page 117.) 



BIOGRAPHY OF LOWELL. 



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the winds. There are a few native elms, 
but those which gave the name to the estate 
are English, sturdy as oaks, standing in 
front of the house. There are also many 
beautiful ash trees. 



BIOGRAPHY OF LOWELL. 

(A Class Exercise.) 

First Pupil — Birth of Lowell : — 

James Kussell Lowell was born at Elm- 
wood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Febru- 
ary 22, 1819. His father was a clergy- 
man of much ability. His mother was a 
Scotch lady of great intellect and had an 
extraordinary aptitude for languages ; she 
also had a passionate fondness for ancient 
songs and ballads. Thus her children were 
nurtured with romance and minstrelsy. 
The old songs sung over the cradle of 
the future poet, were repeated by him in 
early school days until poetic lore and 
taste were, as natural to him as the bodily 
senses. 

Second Pupil — Childhood of Lowell : — 

The nearest neighbor to Elmwood was 
one William Wells, who kept a boys' 
school, and from him Lowell received most 
of his early education. He also studied 
in the classical school of Daniel G. Ingra- 
ham in Boston. It seldom occurs that a 
man will be born, live and die in the same 
house, but this was the case with Lowell ; 
the only time he was absent from Elm- 
wood for any length of time being while 
he was abroad, hence as a boy he had but 
one circle of acquaintances — those he had 
known all his life. 

At sixteen years of age Lowell entered 
Harvard College ; he was but an ordinary 
scholar, much preferring other reading to 
his text books. He graduated from this 
college in 1838 ; while in Harvard he was 
secretary of the "Hasty Pudding Society," 
and one of the editors of the college 
periodical, "Harvardian," to which he con- 
tributed articles both in prose and verse. 

Third Pupil — Manhood of Lowell : — 
At twenty-one years of age Lowell pub- 



lished a volume of poems entitled "A 
Year's Life." These poems savored of 
love and romance, and were inspired by 
love for a beautiful young lady, Miss 
Maria White, who afterward became his 
wife. After this time he became editor 
of the "Pioneer," which, however, was a 
short-lived periodical. From this time 
forth many poems appeared, among which 
were the "Legend of Brittany," "Prome- 
theus," "Khoecus," "The Hermitage," 
"The Shepherd," "A Parable," etc. Later 
in life followed "The Vision of Sir Laun- 
fal," "The Present Crisis," "A Fable for 
Critics," and "The Biglow Papers," the 
latter a series of poems on the subject of 
slavery. 

Fourth Pupil — The Home Life of 
Lowell : — 

December 26, 1844, Mr. Lowell was 
united in marriage with * Miss Maria 
White, whom he had long loved and ad- 
mired. Their domestic life is said to have 
been most beautiful, nothing being wanted 
to make complete happiness except perfect 
health, Mrs. Lowell being a semi-invalid. 
Children were born to them, but one. only 
reached the age of maturity. It is said 
by friends of the poet, who were admitted 
to his study, that a pair of little shoes were 
ever kept hanging over a picture of one 
of their departed children. 

Mr. and Mrs. Lowell went abroad in 
1851, spending a year in Switzerland, 
France, England and Italy. They returned 
in the autumn of 1852, and one year later 
Mrs. Lowell died and was laid to rest 
beside the little graves in beautiful Mt. 
Auburn. 

On the day of Mrs. Lowell's death a 
child was born to Mr. Longfellow, and his 
poem, "The Two Angels," was written in 
commemoration of this event. 

In 1857 Mr. Lowell was again married, 
his wife being Miss Frances Dunlap, of 
Portland, Maine. 

Fifth Pupil — Lowell's Death : — 

Aside from his literary career Mr. 
Lowell was engaged in active professional 



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MEMORIAL DAT EXERCISE. 



work, having filled the chair of belles- 
lettres in Harvard College; also held the 
office of minister to Spain. His death 
occurred at Cambridge, Mass., August 12, 
1891. 



MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISE. 

1— Song— a Kest, Soldier, Kest." 
2 — Paper — The origin of Memorial Day. 
3 — March and Decoration of Monument. 
4 — Quotations by members of school. 
5 — Recitations — 

a The Blue and the Gray."— F. M. 

Finch. 
"Dirge for a Soldier." — Boker. 
"While the Drums Roll By."— 
Will Carleton. 
6— Song— "Just Before the Battle." 
7— Reading— "Cover Them Over."— 

Will Carleton. 
8 — Eulogy — The Common Soldier. 
9 — Our Honored Dead (class exercise). 
Washington. 
Lincoln. 
Grant. 
Lee. 

Jackson. 
10 — Song — "Just as the Sun Went 

Down." 
1 1 — Recitations — 

"Resignation." — Longfellow. 
"Driving Home the Cows." — Os- 
good. 
"Man with the Musket." — Taylor. 
12— Song— "Tenting on the Old Camp- 
ground." 
13 — Memorial Day Class Exercise. 
14 — Reading — "Our Army of the Dead." 

— Carleton. 
1 5 — Recitations — 

"The Brave at Home." — Read. 
"Sleep, Soldier, Sleep." — Maupin. 
"A Georgia Volunteer." — Anon. 
16 — Closing Song — "America." 

ORIGIN OF MEMORIAL DAY. 

The observance of Memorial Day has 
grown from the tender remembrance of 



mothers, sisters and sweethearts, in fact, 
all who survived the war for the Union, of 
the heroes who perished that we might 
enjoy a united, free and just government. 
The practice of setting aside a day to 
visit the graves of loved ones, recall their 
noble deeds, and strew their resting place, 
with flowers, began in the early part of 
the Civil War. It was first observed in 
a village here and a hamlet there, until 
the practice after a while became general. 
In some cases governors recommended a 
certain day, but there was no wide ex- 
tended agreement. In time through these 
influences many state legislatures were 
induced to make a given day a holiday for 
this purpose, and the President and gov- 
ernors recommended the observance of the 
same day, hence our present Memorial 
Day. 

MEMORIAL DAY QUOTATIONS. 

"Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, 
Sleep the sleep that knows no waking." 
—Walter Scott. 

"Furl the banner softly, slowly, 
Treat it gently, it is holy — 

For it droops above the. dead." 

— Thomas Ryan. 

"The muffled drum's sad roll has beat 
The soldier's last tattoo; 
Eo more on life's parade shall meet 
The brave and fallen few." 

— O'Hara. 

"Strew all their graves with flowers, 
They for their country died; 
And freely gave their lives for ours, 
Their country's hope and pride." 

— James Very. 

"But why should I call the muster-roll 
Of those who are here in our hearts 
to-day ? 
They need no naming; each true, p-rand 
soul, 
Has heard your summons, and 
marched away." 

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"He rests in peace 'neath the old oak's 
shade — 
We wavered back from the charging 
foe; 
And the rebel turf on his brow is laid, 
As the winds o'er the slumberer go." 
— Mrs. Hemans. 

"It's lonesome, sorter lonesome, it's a 

Sunday day to me, 
It 'pears like more'n any day I nearly 

ever see; 
Yit with the stars and stripes above a- 

flutter'n in the air, 
On ev'ry soldier's grave, I'd love to lay 

a lily there." 

— James Whitcomb Riley. 

"There is no flock, howe'er watched and 
tended, 
But one dead lamb is there ; 
There, is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, 
But has one vacant chair." 

— Henry W. Longfellow. 

"Remember the soldiers to-day, 
Remember them all with flowers; 
Theirs was the battle, and theirs was the 

pain, 
Ours is the peace and ours is the gain ; 
Theirs was the sowing, the harvest ours — 
And all we can give them to-day is flow- 



ers. 



-Kniskern. 



"All quiet along the Potomac to-night — 
~No sound save the rush of the river ; 
While soft falls the dew on the face of 
the dead — 
The picket's off duty forever." 

— Beers. 

"Sleep, soldiers! still in honor rest, 
Your truth and valor wearing ; 
The bravest are the tenderest — 
The loving are the daring." 

— Jeremy Taylor. 

"From the dust their laurels bloom, 
High they shoot and flourish free ; 
Glory's temple is the tomb — 
Death is immortality." 

— James Montgomery. 



MEMORIAL DAY. 

(A Class Exercise.) 

First Pupil: — 
Come let us twine together 

These knots of fragrant flowers ; 
We'll bind them into garlands, 

To crown these graves of ours; 
We'll deck them with bright blossoms, 

And plant a flag to wave 
It's colors, bright and loving, 

Upon each humble grave. 

Second Pupil : — 
Ah, yes, we'll gladly twine them 

With wreaths of myrtle green — 
Until each mound of earth here 

A fairy bed would seem. 
I think that war is cruel, 

But then it must be just ; 
Brave soldiers' forms were given, 

And crumble now in dust. 

Third Pupil : — 
How many lonely, aching hearts, 

Throughout this land to-day, 
Will long for many loved ones, 

But lately passed away; 
In Cuba and the Philippines, 

As well as here at home, 
Our soldiers lie, in peaceful sleep, 

And 'neath the. ocean's foam. 

Fourth Pupil: — 
I'm thinking of the heroes 

Who went down with the Maine ; 
Though never killed in battle, 

We count them with the slain ; 
I'll wind a special wreath of flowers 

With flags and garlands bright, 
Then dedicate it to our boys 

Who perished in a night. 

Fifth Pupil:— 
I think that war is very sad — 

But yet it seems to me 
The cruel Boxers of the east 

Were dreadful as could be. 
Just think of all the Godly men 

Who gave their lives for sin ; 
They're heroes, though they did not die 

Amid the battle's din. 



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Sixth Pupil t — 
Yes, all the heroes we will crown, 

With flowers at their head; 
Not one of them will we forget 

For they are honored dead; 
We'll crown them in our hearts as well, 

And not forget to pray 
That God will comfort saddened hearts 

On this Memorial Day. 



A MID-SUMMER EXERCISE. 

1— Song-- "The Joyful Summer Day." 
2 — Quotations by school. 
3 — Pen Picture — Woods in Summer. 
4 — Recitations — 

"The Hay-Makers."— height Hunt, 
"The Ploughman." — Oliver W. 

Holmes. 
"Harvest Time." — Paul H.Hayne. 
5_Song— "Song of Nature." 
6— Reading— "The Brook." — Alfred 

Tennyson. 
7 — Song — "The Last Rose of Summer." 

— Thomas. Moore. 
8 — Paper — "A Harvest Scene." 
9— Song— "Happy Days." 
10 — Recitations — 

"The Wind in a Frolic."— Howitt. 
"A Strip of Blue." — Lucy Larcom. 
"The House on the Hill."— Mary 
Hall. 
1 1— Song— " Summer." 
12 — Description — A Happy Vacation. 
13 — Contrast — Sports of Summer vs. 

Winter. 
14 — Recitations — 

"The Day is Done."— H. W. Long- 
fellow. 
"The Old Swimmin' Hole."—/. 

W. Riley. 
"June."— J. B. Lowell. 
15 — Closing Song — "Sweet Summer's 
Gone Away." 

QUOTATIONS. 

"Around this lovely valley rise 
The purple hills of Paradise; 



Oh, softly on yon banks of haze 
Her rosy face the summer lays." 

— Sam. T. Trowbridge. 

"I love to muse o'er meadows newly mown, 
Where withering grass perfumes the 
sultry air; 
Where bees search round, with sad and 
weary drone, 
In vain for flowers that bloomed but 
newly there." — Clare. 

"The cottage curs at early pilgrims bark; 

Crowned with her pail the tripping 

milkmaid sings; 

The whistling plowman stalks afield, and 

hark ! 

Down the rough slope the ponderous 



wagon rings. 



-Beattie. 



"E"o price is set on the lavish summer, 
June may be, had by the poorest comer — 
And what is so rare as a day in June ?" 
— James B. Lowell, 

"There is no dew on any greenless shed, 
The hard baked earth is split along the 
walks, 
The very burrs in stunted clumps are. 
dead, 
And mullen leaves drop withered from 
the stalks." — Irvine. 

"The sky has but one solitary cloud, 
Like a dark island in a sea on high ; 
The parching furrows 'twixt the. corn- 
rows ploughed 
Seem fairly dancing in my dazzled sight, 
While over yonder road a dusty haze 
Grows luminous through the sun's fierce 
blaze." — Hope. 

"Mine be a cot beside the hill — 

A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; 
A willowy brook that turns a mill 
With many a fall shall linger near." 

— Bogers. 

"The freshness and beauty of morning are 
ours, 
The music of birds and the fragrance of 
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And our trail is the first that is seen in 

the dew, 
As our pathway through orchards and 



lanes we pursue." 



— Burleigh. 



"I love the beautiful evening, 

When the sunset clouds are gold; 
When the barn-fowls seek a shelter, 

And the young lambs seek their fold; 
When the four o' clocks are open 

And the swallows homeward come ; 
When the horses cease their labors, 
And the cows come home." 

— Nealey. 

"Homeward, his daily labor done, 
The stalwart farmer slowly plods, 
From battling, between shade and sun, 
With sullen glebe and stubborn sods." 
— Paul H. Hayne. 

"Low burns the summer afternoon, 
A mellow luster lights the scene; 
And from its smiling beauty soon 

The purpling shade will chase the 
sheen." — Street. 

"Oh, glory of our race that so suddenly 
decays ! 
Oh, crimson flush of morning that dark- 
ens as we gaze! 
Oh, breath of summer blossoms that on 

the restless air 
Scatters a moment's sweetness and flies 
we know not where." 

— William C. Bryant. 

"The jassamine clambers in flower o'er the. 
thatch, 
And the swallow chirps sweet from her 
nest in the wall." 

— Dimond. 

"The vine creeps forth, the daisy blooms, 
The very air is filled with song; 
The tall grass bends with graceful curve 
When sweeps the summer breeze 
along." — Jillson. 

"Maud Muller, on a summer's day, 
Raked the meadows sweet with ha v." 

\ G. Whit'tier. 



A MID- WINTER EXERCISE. 

1— Song— "Winter Winds." 

2 — Paper — The Winter Season. 

3 — Description — The Works of Jack 

Frost. 
4 — Recitations — 

"Snow Flakes."— H. W. Longfel- 
low. 

"A Winter Morning." — Wm. Cow- 
per. 

"It Snows."— E. E. Hale. 
5— Song— "Snow Flakes." 
6 — Reading — Winter Sports in Russia. 
7— Song— "The Mighty Storm-King." 
8 — Recitations — 

"The First Snowfall."— J. R. Low- 
ell. 

"Skater's Song." — Anon. 

"The Snowstorm."— £. W. Emer- 



son. 



-J.G. 



9— Pen Picture— "Snow Bound."- 

Whittier. 
10— Song— "Skating Glee." 
11 — Winter Quotations. 
12— Reading— "Winter Beauty."— Gail 

Hamilton. 
1 3 — Recitations — 

"When the. Frost is on the Pun- 
kin."— J. W. Riley. 

"The Bells."— E. A. Foe. 

"Beautiful Snow."— Ed. Watson. 
14 — Closing Song. 

QUOTATIONS. 

"Fireside enjoyments, home-born happi- 
ness, 
And all the comforts that the lowly roof 
Of undisturbed retirement, and the hours 
Of long uninterrupted evening know." 
— William Cowper. 

"How the wild crowd goes swaying along, 
Hailing each other with humor and song ; 
How the gay sledges like meteors flash 

. by- 
Bright for the moment, then lost to the 
eye." — Edward Watson. 

"All day the snow came down — all day, 
As it never came down before; 



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A NEW YEAR EXERCISE. 



And o'er the hills at sunset lay, 

Some two or three feet more; 
The fence was lost and the wall of stone ; 
The windows blocked, and the well- 
curb gone; 
The haystack had grown to a mountain 

lift, 
And the woodpile looked like a monster 
drift, 
As it lay by the farmer's door." 

— Thomas Eastman. 

"Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, 
And the winter winds are wearily sigh- 
ing." — Alfred Tennyson. 

"The mellow year is hast'ning to its close, 
The little birds have almost sung their 

last; 
Their small notes twitter in the dreary 

blast — 
The shrill-piped harbinger of early 
snows." — Sam T. Coleridge. 

"The sky is dark, and on the huddled 

leaves 
The restless, rustling leaves sift down the 

snow, 
Till the sharp crystals pin them to the 

earth, 
And they grow still beneath the rising 

storm." — J. G. Holland. 

"What matter how the night behaved ? 
What matter how the north wind raved ? 
Blow high, blow low, not all its snow 
Could quench our hearth-fire's ruddv 
glow." — J. G. Whittier. * 

"Oh, teach me, beautiful frostwork, 
Another lesson in life — 
The web that is woven by night-time, 
In the morning with gems may be 
rife." — Anon. 

"The gray winter sky unlocks her treas- 
ures; and softness, and whiteness, and 
warmth, and beauty float gently down up- 
on the evil and the good." — Gail Hamil- 
ton. 

"Shut in from all the world without, 
We sat the clean-winged hearth about; 



Content to let the north wind roar 
In baffled rage at pane and door." 

—J. G. Whittier. 

"Blowing, blustering, sweeps the north 
wind — 
See ! the snow is flying fast. 
Hushed the brook and hushed the spar- 
row, 
Tor the summer time is past." 

— Phoebe Thorn. 

"Announced by all the trumpets of the sky 
Arrives the snow; and, driving o'er the 

fields, 
Seems nowhere to alight." 

— B. W. Emerson. 

"Out of the bosom of the air, 

Out of the cloud-folds of her garments 
shaken, 
Over the woodlands brown and bare, 

Over the harvest fields forsaken, 
Silent, and soft, and slow, 
Descends the snow." 

— H. W. Longfellow. 

"To-morrow will the storm be done, 
Then out will come the golden sun ; 
And thus with life it ever goes — 
'Tis shade and shine ! it snows, it snows." 

— Gould. 



A NEW YEAR EXERCISE. 

1 — New Year Song — Mendelssohn. 
2— Beading— "The Closing Year."— 

James Prentice. 
3 — Paper — The Holiday Season. 
4 — Song — "New Year's Song," from the 

German. 
5 — Recitations — 

"The Old Year and the New."— 
Alfred Tennyson. 

"The Old and the New Year."— 
Anon. 

"Death of the Old Year."— Alfred 
Tennyson. 
6— Song— "Jingle Bells." 
7 — New Year Resolutions — By school. 
8 — Our Calendar — How the Months 

were Named. 



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-Recitations — 

"A New Year's Cake." — Johnson. 
"New Year's Resolutions." 
"Snow Flakes."— if. W. Longfel- 
low. 



10 — Reading- 



The Closing Scene."— 



Thos. B. Reade. 
11 — New Year Quotations — By school. 
12— Reading— "The Isle, of Long Ago." 
13 — Closing Song. 

NEW YEAR QUOTATIONS. 

"The year is old, but his dress is gay, 
'Tis red and yellow and green ; 
'Tis brighter than when he sleeping lay 

In the arms of winter I ween. 
Old Winter, his nurse, covered him o'er 

With a pale, white quilt of snow, 
And crisped with frost was the. cap he 
wore, 
Though without a ruffle or bow." 

— James Very. 

"We will speak him fair, my friends, 
We loved him well you know, 
And sing the good old year a song 
Before, we let him go." 

—Helen W. Clark. 

"Ye who have scorned each other, 
Or injured friend or brother, 

In this fast fading year; 
Ye who, by word or deed, 
Have made a kind heart bleed, 

Come gather here ! 
Let sinned against and sinning 
Forget their strife's beginning, 

And join in friendship now; 
Be links no longer broken, 
Be sweet forgiveness spoken, 

Under the holly bough." 

— Charles Mackey. 

"Ring out the old, ring in the new, 
Ring, happy bells, across the snow." 
— Alfred Tennyson. 

"The year has gone, and with it many a 
glorious throng of happy dreams." — 
James Prentice. 



"The bell strikes one. We take no note 
of time, 
But from its loss: to give it then a 
tongue 

Is wise in man." 

— Edward Young. 

"We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, 
not breaths; 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial." 

"The flowers fade, the heart withers, 
man grows old and dies, the world lies 
down in the sepulcher of ages, but time 
writes no wrinkles on the brow of eter- 
nity." — Anon. 

"Every one for his own. 
The. night is starry and cold, my friend, 
And the New Year blithe and bold, my 
friend, 
Comes up to take his own." 

— Alfred Tennyson. 

"There are many who were happy and gay, 
Maud, 
When the last new year came, in, 
Who are sleeping below the frozen turf, 
Away from all sorrow and sin." 

— Anon. 

"Count not thy life by calendars : for years 
Shall pass thee by unheeded, whilst an 

hour — 
Some little fleeting hour, too quickly 

past — 
May stamp itself so deeply on thy brain, 
Thy latest years shall live upon its joy." 

— Kennedy. 

"One year — one year — one little year, 
And so much gone! 
And yet the even flow of life 
Moves calmly on." 

— Mrs. H. B. St owe. 

"A year for striving, 
And hearty thriving; 
A bright New Year, 
Oh ! hold it dear ; 
For God who sendeth, 
He only lendeth," 



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A PRESIDENTIAL EXERCISE. 



"How many days have been sad, 
How many days have been gay, 
Since the coming in of the old year, 
To the birth of this new year day." 

"Tis not for man to trifle ; life is brief, 
And sin is here. 

Our age is but the falling of a leaf, 
A dropping tear." 



PRINTER'S PI FOR THE SCHOOLROOM. 

OR a new plan or way of presenting 
old facts, printers' s pi will be found 
quite attractive for the children; we give 
below an historical, geographical, literary 
and biographical pi, as an illustration of 
this sort of review work. 

HISTORICAL PI. 

Eth smto gartci eetvn fo het vicli rwa, 
het eno hhciw duacse hte ttserage fireg, swa 
eht ssssaaaiinnto f o het tdpiesnre. Eh swa 
tohs yb bhoto ni dfro's tteerah. 

The most tragic event of the Civil war, 
the one which caused the greatest grief, 
was the assassination of the president. He 
was shot by Booth in Ford's theatre. 

GEOGRAPHICAL PI. 

Het dlnasi fo cbau dorpcuse a tager 
ldae fo rusag, emso efeocf, batococ, ntctoo 
nad latcte. Cbuslomu vgea ot beau het 
mean fo Juaan. Teh gironila mean, woh- 
erev, ylfnial repvilade. 

The island of Cuba produces a great 
deal of sugar, some coffee, tobacco, cotton 
and cattle. Columbus gave to Cuba the 
name of Juana. The original name, how- 
ever, finally prevailed. 

LITERARY PI. 

Btflaeuiu syndnsuei no het hdnsuo swa 
het moeh fo whniasgnto igrvni. 

Beautiful Sunnyside on the HudsoTi 
was the. home of Washington Irving. 

BIOGRAPHICAL PI. 

Bdyara trylao, rtaveerl, vnoslite nad 
tope, swa ronb ni 8521 dan ddei ni 8871. 

Bayard Taylor, traveler, novelist and 
poet, was born in 1825 and died in 1878. 



A PRESIDENTIAL EXERCISE. 

1 — What President began life as a canal 
boy? (Garfield.) 

2 — What President was married in the 
White House? (Cleveland.) 

3 — What President's wife saved the Dec- 
laration of Independence from be- 
ing destroyed by fire? (Dolly 
Madison. ) 

4 — What President learned to read and 
write from a fellow worker in a 
tailor shop, where he was em- 
ployed ? ( Johnson. ) 

5 — What President cared so little for 
political affairs that he had not 
voted for forty years previous to 
his election? (Taylor.) 

6 — What President's wife first refused 
to serve wine at the White House ? 
(Mrs. Hayes.) 

7 — What President of the U. S. was so 
great an admirer of Henry Clay 
that he is said to have wept with 
sorrow when the Whigs rejected 
him as a presidential candidate? 
(Tyler.) 

8 — What two Presidents each married 
widows whose given names were 
Martha ? (Washington and Jef- 
ferson. ) 

9 — What President was noted for his 
sunny disposition? (Madison.) 
10 — What President is said to have been 
the. most accomplished man of all 
public men uf his day? (Jeffer- 
son.) 
11 — What President's father died before 
his birth, and left his mother 
penniless ? ( Jackson. ) 
12 — What President was seized with 
paralysis, while occupying his seat 
in Congress, and died two days 
later, never having regained con- 
sciousness? (J. Q. Adams.) 

13 — What President's wife was forced to 
flee from Washington, to escape the 
British ? (Dolly Madison.) 




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A DAY WITH JAMES WHITCOjIB RILEY. 



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14 — What President's wife was known as 

''the bride of the White House?" 

(Frances Cleveland.) 
15 — What two Presidents died the same 

day? (Adams and Jefferson.) 
16 — What President was noted as a story 

teller? (Lincoln.) 
IT — What President's wife was noted for 

her home industry ? (Martha 

Washington. ) 
18 — What President made a tour of the 

world? (Grant.) 

19 — Which Presidents were assassinated? 
(Lincoln and Garfield.) 

20 — What President was impeached? 
(Johnson.) 

21 — What father and son were Presi- 
dents ? (John Adams and J. Q. 
Adams. ) 

22 — What grandfather and grandson were, 
Presidents ? (Wm. H. Harrison 
and Benj. Harrison.) 

23— Who was the "Bachelor President?" 

(Van Buren.) 
24 — Which Presidents died in office? 

(Taylor and Harrison.) 

25 — What President was a classmate of 
Nathaniel Hawthorne? (Pierce.) 

26 — Which President vetoed the measures 
of his own party ? (Tyler.) 

27 — What two Presidents were born the 
same year ? (Jackson and John 
Adams.) 

28 — What President was a celebrated 
violinist? (Jefferson.) 

29 — What President secured the adoption 
of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence? (Adams.) 

30 — Which President wrote the. Declara- 
tion of Independence ? (Jeffer- 
son.) 

31 — What President reduced the pomp of 
official social life? (Jefferson.) 

32 — What President refused a third term 
of office? (Washington.) 



A DAY WITH JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. 

1— Song— "This Life is What We Make 

It." 
2 — Biographical Sketch (class exercise). 
3— Song— "The World is Pull of 

Dreamers." 
4 — Recitations — 

"When the Frost is on thePunkin." 

"The Old Swimmin' Hole." 

"Ever a Song Somewhere." 
5— Beading— "The Gilded Roll." 
6 — Pen-picture — "The Old Home by the 

Mill." 
7 — Song. 
8 — Recitations — 

"When Old Jack Died." 

"An Old Sweetheart." 

"Worter Melon Time." 
9 — Quotations from Riley. 
10 — Closing Song. 

BIOGRAPHY OF RILEY. 

(A Class Exercise.) 

First Pupil : — 

Riley the Child — James Whitcomb 
Riley was born in the little town of Green- 
field, Indiana, in 1852. 

His father was a lawyer, and was very 
proud of his little son. It is said that he 
could not wait until James became old 
enough to wear trousers, but that he 
bought cloth and cut and made him a full 
suit of clothes himself; the trousers were 
made so long that they reached to his feet, 
and the coat w T as elaborately trimmed with 
brass buttons. In this attire James was 
taken into the court room by his father, 
much to the amusement of the lawyers, 
who nick-named him "Judge Wick." 

Little James much enjoyed being in the 
court room, and as he grew older spent 
much time there with his father ; perched 
up on the window ledge, he used to watch 
all proceedings, and enjoy listening to 
the curious dialect of the country people. 
Indeed it was here that he first learned 
to speak this queer dialect that was in the 
future to make him dear to the hearts of 
the common people. 



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A DAY WITH JAMES WHITCOMB RlLEY. 



Second Pupil : — 

Riley the School Boy — At school James 
was always "Star Actor" and reciter; 
in other studies he was very de- 
ficient, reading excepted; of reading 
he was passionately fond. The school 
readers in use at that day were the 
old McGuffey series, which contained 
many real bits of literature, these Eiley 
enjoyed with all his heart. It seems that 
he must have possessed a very sympathetic 
nature, for on occasions when sad selec- 
tions were to be read, he absented himself 
from school. It is said that he, could 
never read Dickens' "Death of Little 
Nell," without shedding tears, and he was 
afraid the other boys would make sport of 
him. 

Riley early evinced another natural gilt, 
that of drawing, as was exemplified in 
after years. 

Third Pupil: — 

Riley the Youth — As a young man 
Riley's health was very poor, and he 
was advised by his physician to travel, 
in the hopes of benefiting it. Not 
having sufficient means to gratify a 
taste for traveling as he would prefer, he 
yet proved the truth of the old adage that 
"Where there is a will, there is a way." 
He accordingly joined a patent medicine 
company, and began the seeking after 
health. Although he knew nothing of the 
manager of the company when he became 
a member of it, he found him to be a real 
gentleman, who treated him as one of his 
own family. He remained with this 
company for one year. At the close of this 
time, the "Graphic Company" was formed, 
whose business was that of sign painting. 
Thus it was that the period of the poet's 
life known as the "traveling sign-painter" 
began. The company was composed of 
half a dozen members, all jolly fellows 
and musicians, Riley, himself, playing the 
violin and guitar. Their plan was to enter 
a town, collect a crowd by their music, and 
then get orders from the merchants for 
sign painting, which was to be done on the 



fences of all roads leading into the town^ 
from every direction. Riley followed this 
business for three years, after which he 
entered a newspaper office and began his 
literary labors. 

Fourth Pupil: — 

Riley the Poet — Riley's first verses 
were written during the time he was 
a member of the "Graphic Company," 
being printed in various newspapers of 
the day. From that time until the 
present day his pen % has been busy in 
the art of verse making. Among the pub- 
lished volumes thus far are "Neighborly 
Poems," "Character Sketches and Poems," 
"Afterwhiles," "Pipes O'Pan at Zekes- 
bury," "Green Fields and Running- 
Brooks" and "The Rubaiyat of Doc 
Sifers." 

Mr. Riley has never married ; he spends 
much of his time at the home of a sister in 
Indianapolis, of which he has written, 

"Such a dear little street, it is nestled 
away 

From the noise of the city, and heat of 
the day, 

In cool, shady coverts of whispering 
trees, 

With their leaves lifted up to shake hands 
with the breeze, 

Which, in all its wide wanderings, never 
may meet 

With a resting-place fairer than Lock- 
erbie Street." 

QUOTATIONS "FROM EILEY. 

"Let's go a-visitin' back to Griggsby's 
Station, 
Back where the latch string's a hangin' 
from the door, 
And ever' neighbor round the place is 
dear as a relation — 
Back where we used to be so happy 
and so pore." 

— Griggsby's Station. 

"I can see the honeysuckle clim'in' up 
around the mill ; 
And kin hear the. worter chuckle, and the 
wheel a-growlm' still ; 



A STATESMAN EXERCISE. 



And frum the bank below it I kin steal 
the old canoe, 
And jes' git in and row it like the miller 
used to do." — Bomancin. 

"When life was like a story, holding 
neither sob or sigh, 
In the golden olden glory of the days 
gone by." 

— The Days Gone By. 

"It ain't no use to grumble and complain ; 
It's jest as cheap and easy to rejoice : 
When God sorts out the weather and 
sends rain, 
W'y, rain's my choice." 

—Wet Weather Talk. 
"And again I feel the pressure of her little 
slender hand, 
As we used to talk together of the future 

we had planned — 
When I should be a poet, with nothing 

else to do 
But write the tender verses that she set 
music to." 

— An Old Sweetheart. 
"The delights of our childhood is soon 
passed away, 
And our gloryus youth it departs, — 
And yit, dead and buried, they's blossoms 
of May 
Ore theyr medderland graves in our 
hearts." 
— The Delights of Our Childhood. 
"O thou that doth all things devise 
And fashion fer the best, 
He'p us who sees with mortal eyes. 
To overlook the rest." 

— A Hymn of Faith. 
"I don't know how to tell it — but if such a 
thing could be 
As the Angels wantin' boardin', and the'd 

call around on me — 
I'd want to 'commodate 'em-all the 

whole-indurin' flock, 
When the frost is on the punkin' and the 
fodder's in the shock." 
— When the Frost is On the Punkin. 

"They's sorrow in the wavin' leaves of all 
the apple trees ; 



And sorrow in the harvest-sheaves, and 

sorrow in the breeze ; 
And sorrow in the twitter of the Swallers 

round the shed; 
And all the song her red-bird sings is 

Tittle Haly's Dead.' " 

— Little Mahala Ashcraft. 

"I never set eyes on a clover field now, 
Er fool around a stable, er climb in the 

mow, 
But my childhood comes back jest as 

clear and as plain 
As the smell of the clover I'm sniffin' 
again." — The Clover. 

"And I grope through the dark, lookin' 
up'ards 
And on through the heavenly dome, 
With my longin' soul singin' and sobbin' 
The words, 'Do They Miss Me At 
Home ?' " 

— A Old Played-out Song. 
"I love my God the. first of all, 

Then Him that perished on the cross; 
And next, my wife, — and then I fall 
Down on my knees and love the hoss." 
—The Hoss. 



A STATESMAN EXERCISE. 

1 — What statesman was killed in a duel ? 
(Alexander Hamilton.) 

2 — What statesman was tried for 
treason? (Aaron Burr.) 

3 — What statesman was caned in Con- 
gress by Preston Brooks ? (Charles 
Sumner.) 

4 — What statesmen took part in a debate, 
that was known as the "battle of 
the giants?" (Daniel Webster 
and Robert Hayne.) 

5 — What statesman was vice-president of 
the Confederacy? (Alexander H. 
Stephens.) 

6 — What statesman made a boast of be- 
ing a descendant of Pocahontas ? 
(John Randolph.) 

7 — What noted statesman became insane 
at the death of his wife ? (Horace 
Greeley. ) 



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SCHOOLROOM ENIGMAS. 



8 — What statesman was known as the 
"Pathfinder ?" (John C. Fre- 
mont.) 

9 — What statesman was known as Ameri- 
ca's greatest orator? (Daniel 
Webster.) 

10 — What statesman is noted as an after- 
dinner speaker? (Chauncy De- 
pew.) 

11 — What famous statesman was the son 
of a Baptist minister ? (Henry 
Clay.) 

12 — What statesman was at one time a 
chief of the Cherokee Indians? 
(Sam Houston.) 

13 — What statesman was one of the chief 
promoters of the Erie canal ? (De- 
Witt Clinton.) 

14 — What statesman had a street fight 
with Jackson ? (Thomas Benton.) 

15 — Who said "Millions for defence, but 
not one cent for tribute ?" (Charles 
Pinckney.) 

16 — Who was president of the Confeder- 
acy? (Jefferson Davis.) 

17 — Who was Secretary of War under 
Lincoln, and removed under John- 
son? (Edwin M. Stanton.) 

18 — What statesman was known as 
"Hunker" Democrat ? (Horatio 
Seymour. ) 

19 — Who was known as "Honest John ?" 
(John Sherman.) 

20 — Who was known as "Poor Kichard ?" 
(Benj. Franklin.) 

21 — Who was known as the "Plumed 
Knight?" (James G. Blaine.) 

22 — Who is the advocate of free silver ? 
(Wm. J. Bryan.) 

23 — Who was the author of the Missouri 
Compromise? (Henry Clay.) 

24 — Who was the author of the Kansas- 
Nebraska bill? , (Stephen A. 
Douglas.) 

25 — What statesman was noted for his 
culture? (Edward Everett.) 



26 — What statesman after having served 
in Congress as a Democrat for four- 
teen years, became a Eepublican? 
(John Bell.) 

27 — Who delivered a memorial address on 
Washington, before Congress ? 
(Richard Henry Lee.) 

28 — Who spent thirty-five years of his life, 
as Justice of the Supreme Court? 
(John Marshall.) 

29 — Who was the leading advocate of 
state's rights? (John C. Calhoun.) 

30 — Who, after his term as president had 
expired, was a member of the 
House of Representatives for seven- 
teen years ? (J. Q. Adams.) 



SCH00LB00M ENIGMAS. 

BATTLE ENIGMAS. 

1 — Name a battle that would be un- 
pleasant for barefooted boys. 

2 — Name a battle found in every farm- j 
yard. 

3 — Name two battles that are found in a 
forest. 

4 — Name an uninhabited battle. 

5 — Name a good luck battle. 

6 — Name a stimulating battle. 

7 — Name an observing battle. 

8 — Name a comfortable battle. 

9 — Name a college battle. 
10 — Name a wealthy battle. 
11— Name a cleanly battle. 
12 — Name a suspended battle. 
13 — Name a royal battle. 

Answer to above: — (1) Stony Point; 
(2) Cowpens; (3) Fair Oaks and Seven 
Pines; (4) Wilderness; (5) Horseshoe 
Bend; (6) Brandy wine; (7) Lookout ! 
Mountain; (8) Pillow Fort ; (9) Prince- 
ton; (10) Rich Mountain; (11) White 
Plains; (12) Hanging Rock; (13) 
King's Mountain. 

WHERE DO WE HEAR OF THESE LITTLE j 
PEOPLE ? 

1— "Little Corporal?'' (Bonaparte.) 
2— "Little Dorrit ?" (Heroine in Dick- ; 
ens' novel of same name.) 



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3— "Little Eva?" (Angelic child in 
Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Stowe.) 

4— "Little Giant?" (Name given Ste- 
phen A. Douglas.) 

5— "Little Mac ?" (McClellan. ) 

6 — "Little Magician?" (Martin Van 
Buren.) 

7— "Little Nell?" (Heroine of Dickens 7 
"Old Curiosity Shop.") 

8— "Little Khody?" (Name applied to 
the state of Khode. Island. ) 

9— "Little Thomas?" (Thomas Moore.) 
10— "Little Eed Eiding Hood?" (Old 
Nursery Tale.) 

WHERE DO WE HEAR OF THESE OLD 
PEOPLE ? 

1— "Old Hickory?" (Gen. Andrew 
Jackson.) 

2— "Old Ironsides?" (Frigate "Con- 
stitution.") 

3— "Old Man Eloquent?" (John Quincy 
Adams. ) 

4— "Old North State?" (North Caro- 
lina.) 

5— "Old Bullion?" (Thomas Hart 
Benton. ) 

6— "Old Public Functionary ?" (James 
Buchanan.) 

7— "Old Probabilities?" (Name given 
to weather bureau.) 

8— "Old Country?" (Name applied by 
people of U. S. to the British 
Isles.) 

9 — "Old Bogy Man ?" (A nursery ghost, 
formerly used to frighten chil- 
dren. ) 
10— "Old Grimes ?" (Hero of a popular 
ballad by Albert Greene.) 



SOME SCHOOLROOM PUZZLES. 

MYSTERIOUS HEADS. 

HERE'S a head whose mission it is 
to glow, 

And a head which ofttimes leads to woe; 
There's a head that's a very unwelcome 
guest, 



And a head worn by ladies when thought 

well dressed ; 
There's a head very good for food 'tis said, 
And a head marks the resting place of the 

dead. 
There's a head on every sail-boat at sea, 
And a head which means progress for you 

and me. 

MYSTERIOUS FEET. 

There's a foot that's played all over our 

land; 
There's a foot that's often seen in the 

sand; 
There's a foot that crosses many a stream, 
And a foot we sometimes strike in a 

dream. 
There's a foot who marches in rain or 

shine, 
And a foot that has measured many a line. 
There's a foot which makes for our feet a 

rest, 
And a foot which is heard from east to 

west. 

MYSTERIOUS HANDS. 

There's a hand oft used to call to school, 
And a hand to draw for us water cool ; 
There's a hand that with melody fills the 

air, 
And a hand that is ofttimes sweet and fair. 
There's a hand that we need each day in 

the year, 
And a hand that criminals always fear ; 
There's a hand that is made to scatter 

round, 
And a hand that makes a discordant 

sound. 

AXSWERS TO ABOVE. 

Headlight, headstrong, headache, head- 
dress, headcheese, headstone, headsail, 
headway. 

Football, footprint, footbridge, foot- 
board, footsoldier, footrule, footstool, foot- 
step. 

Handbell, handpump, handorgan, hand- 
maid, handkerchief, handcuff, handbill, 
I handsaw. 



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SPRINGTIME EXERCISE. 



SPKIMTIME EXERCISE. 

1 — Song — "Music Everywhere." 
.2 — Paper — Springtime Beauty. 
3 — Song — "Spring and Summer." 
4 — Recitations — 

"Blossom Time." — Mary M. 

Dodge. 
"The O'Lincoln Family."— Flagg. 
"Spring." — Thomas Gray. 
5— Song— "The Farmer Boy." 
6 — Reading — "Birds in Springtime." 
7 — Contrast — Spring in Country vs. 

City. 
8— Song— "May." 
9 — Recitations — 

"The Brook." — Alfred Tennyson. 
"March."— W. C. Bryant. 
"Afton Water." — Robert Bums. 
10— Song— "On The Sunny Side." 
1 1 — Quotations. 

12— Song— "Return of the Flowers." 
13 — Paper — The First Spring Flowers. 
14 — Recitations — 

"Farm Yard Song."— Samuel T. 

Trowbridge. 
"Bare-Foot Boy."— J. G.Whittier. 
"The Farmer's Wife."— P. H. 
Hayne. 

15— Song— "Soft Flowing River." 
16 — Paper — Maple Sugar Time. 
17— Pen-Picture— "Nightfall."— Street. 
18— Song— "A Song of Spring." 

QUOTATIONS. 

"Spring with that nameless pathos in the 

air, 
Which dwells with all things fair ; * 
Spring, with her golden suns and silver 

rain, 
Is with us once again." — Timrod. 

"To-day the south wind sweeps away, 
The types of Autumn's splendor, 
And shows the sweet arbutus flowers, 
Spring's children, true and tender." 
— Laighton. 

"Oh, the broom, the bonny, broom, 
On my native hills it grows; 



I had rather see the bonny broom, 
Than the rarest flower that blows." 

— Howitt. 

"Come to the sun-set tree ! 
The day is past and gone ; 
The woodman's ax lies free — 
And the reaper's work is done." 

— Felicia Hemans. 

"And something through the sunlight 
said; 
'Let all who love be blest !' 
The earth is wedded to the Spring — 
And God, He knoweth best." 

— Mary Mapes Dodge. 

"Far away from their native air, 
The Norway pines their green dress 

wear — 
And larches swing their long, loose hair." 

— Alice Cary. 

"There are life and joy in thy coming, 
Spring ! 
Thou hast no tidings of gloom or 
death ; 
But buds thou shakest from every wing, 
And sweets, thou breathest with every 
breath." — Simms. 

"Come ye, come ye, to the green, green 
wood; 
Loudly the blackbird is singing. 
The squirrel is feasting on blossom and 
bud, 
And the curling fern is springing." 

— Howitt. 

"How sweet, at set of sun, to view 

Thy golden mirror spreading wide, 
And see the mist of mantling blue 

Float round the distant mountain 
side." — Susan Percival. 

"Within a thick and spreading hawthorn 
bush, 
That overhung a mole-hill large and 
round, 
I heard, from morn till night, a merry 
thrush 
Sing hymns to sunrise, as I drank the 
sound." — Clarke. 



SOME SCHOOLROOM GAMES. 



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"Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising 

sweet, 
With charm of earliest birds; pleasant 

the sun, 
When first on this delightful land he 

spreads 
His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, 

and flower, 
Glistening with dew/' 

"And the leaves greet Spring — the joyous 
leaves, 
Whose trembling gladden many a 
copse and glade, 
Where each young spray a rosy flush 
receives, 
When thy south wind hath pierced the 
whispery shade, 
And happy murmurs running through 

the grass, 
Tell that thy footsteps pass." 

— Felicia Hemans. 

"How pleasant thy banks and green 
valleys below, 

Where wild in the woodland the prim- 
roses blow; 

There oft as mild evening sweeps over the 
lea, 

Thy sweet-scented birk shades my Mary 
and me." — Robert Burns. 

"O for boyhood's time of June, 
Crowding years in one brief moon, 
When all things I heard or saw, 
Me their master waited for." 

— J. G. Whittier. 



A STATE EXERCISE. 

Xame the, 
1 — "Corn-Cracker State." (Kentucky.) 
2— "Empire State." (New York.) 
3— "Turpentine State." (North Caro- 
lina.) 
4— "Prairie State." (Illinois.) 
5— "Buck-Eye State." (Ohio.) 
6— "Hawk-Eye State." (Iowa.) 
7— "Wolverine State." (Michigan.) 
S — "Gopher State." (Minnesota.) 
9— "Big Bend State." (Tennessee.) 

10— "Key-Stone State." (Pennsylvania.) 



11— "Little Khody." (Rhode Island.) 
12— "Garden of the East." (New Jersey.) 
13— "Palmetto State." (South Carolina.; 
14— "Hoosier State." (Indiana.) 
15 — "Iron State." (Missouri.) 
10— "Peninsular State." (Florida.) 
17 — "Bayou State." (Mississippi.) 
18— "Golden State." (California.) 
19— "Lone Star State," (Texas.) 
20— "Creole State." (Louisiana.) 
21— "Silver State." (Montana.) 
22— "Centennial State." (Colorado.) 
23— "Sun Flower State." (Kansas.) 
24— "Pine Tree State." (Maine.) 
25— "Old Bay State." (Massachusetts.) 
26— "Granite State." (New Hampshire.) 
27— "Green Mountain State." (Ver- 
mont. ) 
28 — "Nutmeg State." (Connecticut.) 
29— "Old North State." (North Caro- 
lina.) 
30— "Badger State." (Wisconsin.) 
31— "Bear State." (Arkansas.) 
32— "Pan Handle State." (West Vir- 
ginia. ) 

INDIAN SIGNIFICATION OF NAMES. 

1 — What name signifies "Dark and 

Bloody ground ?" (Kentucky.) 
2— "Beautiful river?" (Ohio.) 
3— "Kiver of men ?" (Illinois.) 
4— "Here we rest ?" (Alabama. ) 
5 — "Muddy water ?" (Missouri.) 
6— "Great lake?" (Michigan.) 
7— "Blooming ?" (Florida.) 
8— "Drowsy ones ?" (Iowa.) 
9 — "Gathering of waters ?" (Wiscon- 
sin.) 
10— "Cloudy water?" (Minnesota.) 
11— "Smoky water?" (Kansas.) 
12— "Water valley ?" ( Nebraska. ) 
13 — "Green mountain?" (Vermont.) 
14 — "Father of waters?" (Mississippi.) 
15 — "Wild marjoram ?" (Oregon.) 



SOME SCHOOLROOM GAMES 

BUZZ. 

fHIS is an old game, but a general 
favorite ; the greater the number of 
players, the greater the fun. The players 



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sit in a circle and begin to count in turn. 
When the number 7, or any number in 
which 7 occurs, or any multiple of seven 
is reached, they say "Buzz," in place of the 
number. As, supposing the players to have 
counted to thirteen, the next player will 
say "Buzz," because the following number 
14 is a multiple of seven, the next player 
will continue the count by saying 15, the 
next 16 but the next must say "Buzz," 
because it contains the number 7. If a 
player forgets to call "Buzz" at the proper 
time he is counted out, the game is con- 
tinued by the remaining players, until but 
one person remains. If the numbers are 
counted as far as 70, which will be called 
"Buzz," the count will then be continued 
as "Buzz" 1; "Buzz" 2, etc. 

HOW, WHEN, AND WHERE. 

One of the company goes out of the 
room, while those remaining choose a word 
to be guessed, this word should be a 
homonym, or a word with two or more 
meanings. 

We will presume the word to be "jam;" 
the person outside is then recalled and 
may ask each member of the party in 
turn "How do you like it V 9 The answer 
may be "sweet," meaning a preserve, or 
"strong," meaning a part of a door. The 
next question asked is "Where do you like 
it ?" The answer may be "On tarts," "On 
doors," "Anywhere," "At grandmother's," 
etc. Then the third question "When do 
you like it ?" The answers "At luncheon." 
"In stormy weather," "When I am tired," 
"When I am hungry," etc., follow. The 
game consists in guessing the correct word 
from the answers given. 

CEOSS QUESTIONS, SILLY ANSWERS. 

The children stand in two rows, facing 
each other. Two persons chosen, one from 
each side, now pass down the rows ; one on 
one side whispering a question to each 
child, the other down the remaining row 
whispering answers. When all have been 
given questions and answers the game 
opens; each child must be careful to re- 



member the words given him, the effect is 
ludicrous as the answers may not be at all 
suited to the questions, as "Who was 
Columbus ?" may receive the answer "I 
placed it in the oven," etc. When the 
questions have been asked and answered, 
new captains are chosen to give the words 
and thus the game continues. 

TEAKETTLE. 

This is another game of homonyms; a 
player is sent out of the room and a word 
of different meanings chosen, when the 
player returns to the room each guest must 
make some statement in which the word is 
used, but in place of using the word in. the 
sentence the word "Teakettle," is used. 
For example, we will presume that the 
word selected is "ring," one person says "I 
am fond of my new teakettle," another 
says, "I helped to teakettle clothes this 
morning." "I lost my teakettle," "I will 
teakettle the bell for you," etc. When the 
word is guessed, the player whose sentence 
led to the discovery must go out of the 
room, while a new word is selected, and 
the game continues. 

POSTMAN. 

This game may be played by any num- 
ber of persons. One of the players is 
blindfolded, and is called the Postman, 
another person is called Postmaster, the re- 
mainder of the players, are seated in a 
circle around the room, which should be 
cleared of furniture as nearly as possible 
thus, giving more space for the players. 
The Postmaster now walks around the 
circle, and in a whisper assigns each per- 
son the name of a city or town ; the blind 
Postman is now placed in the center of the 
circle, while the Postmaster takes a posi- 
tion where he can overlook the players: 
He then calls out, "I have a letter from 
Chicago to Havana," and the players rep- 
resenting these cities quickly change 
places. As they run the Postman en- 
deavors to capture them, or find the empty 
cli.iir in the circle, if he succeeds the 
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comes the Postman. The Postmaster 
should call the mails rapidly, so that the 
Postman has opportunities to secure a 
seat; it is not necessary that the. Post- 
master be changed during the game. 

I LOVE MY LOVE. 

This is essentially a school game, as the 
alphabet plays a prominent part in it. The 
players are seated around the, room, and a 
letter of the alphabet is assigned each, if 
there be more than twenty-six players, 
they may begin at the beginning of the 
alphabet again. Each person must tell 
why he loves his love, where he will take 
her, and what he will feed her, each of 
which statement must begin with the let- 
ter he represents, as, supposing the letter 
to be B, the player may say "I love my 
love because he is beautiful, I will take 
him to Boston, and feed him on baked 
beans." Or if the letter be O, "I love my 
love because she is odd, I will take her to 
Oporto and feed her on oranges." This 
will be found a great favorite with 
children. 

GUESS THE WHISTLE. 

A boy who is an adept at whistling is 
placed on the rostrum before the school; 
pencils and paper are provided the re- 
mainder of the school; the boy begins 
whistling a popular air, after a few bars 
are whistled he stops abruptly, and each 
child records the name of the selection he 
has whistled. This performance is con- 
tinued, until some half-dozen different 
tunes have been used, when the correct 
names of the tunes are announced and the 
count is made. This exercise is useful in 
training the sense of hearing as well as 
memory. 



THANKSGIVING PROGRAMME. 

1— Song— "A Harvest Hymn." 
2 — Origin of Thanksgiving. 
3 — The Pilgrims. (A Class Exercise.) 
4— Heading— "The Eamine."— H. W. 
Longfellow. 



5 — Recitations — 

"Harvest Time."— P. II. Hayne. 
"Corn Song."—/. G. Whittier. 
"Death of the Flowers'."— W. C. 
Bryant. 

6 — Character Sketch — "Miles Standish." 
7— Essay — Early Colonial Life. 
8— Song. 

9 — Reading — Cellar Scene of Holland's 
"Bitter Sweet." 
10 — Synopsis — "Courtship of Miles 

Standish." — R. W. Longfellow. 
1 1 — Reci tations — 

"The Pumpkin."— J. G. Whittier. 
"When the Frost is on the Pun- 
kin." — James Whit comb Riley. 

1 2 — Pen-Picture — Autumn. 

13 — Description — "Thanksgiving in Ye 

Olden Time." 
14 — Autumn Quotations. 
15 — Song. 



THANKSGIVING EXERCISE. 

THE PURITANS. 

First Pupil : — 

The Pilgrims — The literal translation 
of the word Pilgrim, is "a visitor in a 
foreign land." The term Pilgrim Fathers 
was given to the emigrants who came to 
America, in the seventeenth century, be- 
cause of religious differences in England. 
They embarked from Plymouth, England, 
August 5, 1620, in two ships, one of the 
vessels proved unseaworthy, so was 
abandoned. The, remaining vessel "The 
Mayflower" landed at Plymouth Rock, 
December 21st, of the same year. Before 
landing they gathered in the cabin of the 
ship and there drew up a frame of govern- 
ment, which they all signed, electing John 
Carver governor for one year. Shortly 
after landing they made a treaty of peace 
with the Indians, through the chief Mas- 
sasoit, which remained unbroken for many 
years. 



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Second Pupil : — 

William Bradford — John Carver was 
chosen first governor of the Massachusetts 
colony. He died shortly after the May- 
flower had sailed on her return trip to 
England. Wm. Bradford was chosen to 
fill his place as governor. One of the first 
things he did on assuming the governor- 
ship was to confirm the treaty Carver had 
made with the Indians, although about 
this time the Indians became restless. 
Cononicus, a Narragansett chief, sent a 
bundle of arrows wrapped in a snake's 
skin to Bradford as a token of defiance; 
this Bradford returned filled with powder 
and shot. This suggestion had the desired 
effect and the Narragansetts remained 
peaceful. 

Bradford served as governor of this 
colony for thirty-one years, but declined 
to serve longer. He wrote a history of 
the Plymouth colony, covering the time 
from 1602-1647. 

Third Pupil: — 

The Famine — The sufferings of the Pil- 
grims during the first winter were severe. 
At one time there were only seven well 
persons to care for the sick; within four 
months twenty-one persons died of the 
severe cold and from want of substantial 
food, and for two years they suffered many 
privations. The progress of the colony 
was very slow. Their harvests were in- 
sufficient to feed themselves and newcom- 
ers. "During the famine of 1623 the best 
dish they could set before their friends was 
a bit of fish and a cup of cold water," but 
the summer and autumn of 1623 they 
were relieved by a bountiful harvest. 

Fourth Pupil : — 

The First Thanksgiving — After the 
bountiful harvest of 1623 Gov. Bradford 
appointed a day of thanksgiving, fasting 
and prayer; this was observed with great 
solemnity. Gradually the custom of ap- 
pointing a fast and thanksgiving day each 
autumn, after the gathering in of the har- 
vest became universal and spread through- 



out all the New England colonies. Dur- 
ing the Bevolution a day of national 
thanksgiving was annually recommended 
by Congress, and from this grew our 
annual thanksgiving observances. 

Fifth Pupil:— 

Miles Standish- — Miles Standish was 
the military leader of the Plymouth col- 
ony. He had been a soldier in the Nether- 
lands, and was one of the emigrants who 
came over in the Mayflower. He was a 
man of great sagacity and courage; he 
led the colonists in their wars against the 
Indians; his daring and skill often saved 
the colonists from the murderous assaults 
of the Indians. During the famine that 
followed the arrival of the Pilgrims his 
wife, sweet Hose Standish, died. 

Five years later he again visited Eng- 
land, returning in 1626 with supplies. 

In the Plymouth colony was a lovely 
Puritan maiden, Priscilla Mullens by 
name. Miles Standish had fallen in love 
with her and wished to win her for his 
wife; although he was so brave a war- 
rior and never paused to consider danger, 
yet he shrank from facing this young girl 
and asking her to be his wife. Now, 
Standish had a friend, John Alden, to 
whom he made known his love for Pris- 
cilla, and desired that he (John) make 
known to her his feelings and ask her to 
be the wife of Standish. Now, John 
Alden himself loved Priscilla and did not 
desire to be the bearer of another man's 
love; but he finally yielded to the en- 
treaties of the captain, and departed on his 
errand with a heavy heart. He found 
Priscilla seated at her spinning-wheel ; he 
at once told her the import of his visit, 
and pleaded the case of the captain quite 
well indeed. When he had finished he was 
rejoiced to hear the rejoinder, "Why don r t 
you speak for yourself, John ?" You may 
be sure that he did speak for himself with- 
out more ado, with the happy result, that 
Priscilla Mullens became Mistress John 
Alden ; while the old warrior captain felt 
that for once he had been fairly beaten. 



AUTUMN QUOTATIONS. 



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AUTUMN QUOTATIONS. 

JSHEN" the frost is on the punkin 
l¥iW f and tlie fodder's in the shock, 
And you hear the kyouk and gobble of 

the struttin' turkey-cock, 
And the clackin' of the guineys, and the 

cluckin' of the hens, 
And the rooster's hallylooyer as he tip- 
toes on the fence; 
O, it's then's the time a-feller is a-feelin' 

at his best, 
With the risin' sun to greet him from a 

night of peaceful rest, 
As he leaves the house, bare-headed, and 

goes out to feed the stock, 
When the frost is on the punkin and the 

fodder's in the. shock." 

r ames Whitcomb Riley. 



"Hearts like apples are hard and sour, 
Till crushed by pain's resistless power; 
And yield their juices rich and bland 
To none but sorrow's heavy hand. 
The purest streams of human love. 

Flow naturally never, 
But gush by pressure from above, 

With God's hand on the lever. 
The first are turbidest and meanest — 
The last are sweetest and serenest." 
— /. G. Holland. 

"Ah, on Thanksgiving Day, when from 

East and from West, 
From North and from South come the 

pilgrim and guest; 
When the gray-haired New Englander 

sees round his board 
The old broken links of affection restored, 
When the care-wearied man seeks his 

mother once more, 
And the worn matron smiles where the 

girl smiled before — 
What moistens the lip, and what bright- 
ens the eye? 
What calls back the past, like the rich 

pumpkin pie?" 

— John G. Whittier. 

"And now we reap, and oh, our God, 
From this, the earth's unbounded floor, 



We send our Song of Thanks abroad, 
And pray Thee, bless our hoarded 
store." — W. D. Galliger. 

"The feast that Nature gives 
Is not for one alone ; 
'Tis shared by the meanest slave that 
lives, 
And the tenant of a throne." 

— Eliza Cook. 

"Happy the man who tills his field, 
Content with rustic labor; 
Earth does to him her fullness yield, 

Hap what may to his neighbor. 
Well days, sound nights, oh, can there be 
A life more rational and free ?" 

— Richard Henry Stoddard. 

"O, favored land, thy bursting barns are 
laden 
With such fair offspring of thine opu- 
lent sod; 
At length thou art a rich Arcadian 
Adenne, 
Lapped in the bounteous benison of 
God." —Paul H. Hayne. 

"Nature never did betray 

The heart that loved her. 'Tis her privi- 
lege, 

Through all the years of this our life, 
to lead 

From joy to joy." — Wm. Wadsworth. 

"Among the stubbled corn 
The blithe quail pipes at morn, 

The merry partridge drums in hidden 
places, 
And glittering insects gleam 
Above the. reedy stream, 

Where busy spiders spin their filmy 
laces." — George Arnold. 

"The mellow year is hasting to its close, 
The little birds have almost sung their 
last." Samuel Coleridge. 

"Between the andiron's straddling feet 
The mug of cider simmered slow, 
The apples sputtered in a row, 
And, close at hand, the basket stood 
With nuts from brown October's 
wood." — /. G. Whittier. 



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BIOGRAPHY OF WAMH1NGT0N. 



A WASHINGTON EXERCISE. 

1 — Song — "America." 

2 — Birth and Early Life of Washington. 

3 — Paper — Mt. Vernon. 

4 — Recitations — 

"The, Belles of Mt. Vernon."— 

Hezehiah Butterworth. 
"Ode to Washington." — Anon. 
5 — The Youth of Washington. 
6 — Description — "The Winter at Valley 

Forge." 
7— Song— "Hail Columbia." 
8 — Quotations from Washington. 
9 — Washington, the Soldier. 
10 — Washington, the President. 
11 — Recitations — 

"Washington." — Margaret E. 

Sangster. 
"A Chain of Dates." — Anon. 
12 — Song — "Banner of Victory." 
13— The Wife of Washington. 
14 — Reading — "Grandmother's Story of 
15 — Death of Washington. 



BIOGRAPHY OF WASHINGTON. 

(A Class Exercise.) 
Birth of Washington — First Pupil: — 

George Washington, eldest son of Au- 
gustine and Mary (Ball) Washington, 
was born February 22, 1732, at Wakefield, 
Westmoreland County, Virginia. This 
was on the Potomac River about thirty 
miles southeast from Fredericksburg, and 
in the famous "Northern Neck," that long- 
narrow strip between the Potomac and 
Rappahannock Rivers, the birthplace of 
so many of those heroes and statesmen of 
which the "Old Dominion" is justly 
proud. 

The Father of Washington — Second Pu- 
pil : — 
Of Augustine Washington, the father of 
our renowned George Washington, little 
is known. He was of English descent and 
twice married. His second wife, the 
mother of George, was the famous Vir- 
ginia belle, fair Mary Ball. The father 



of Washington died April 12, 1743, when 
George was a lad of eleven years. His 
body was interred in the family vault at 
Wakefield. It is said that his last resting 
place is now overgrown with weeds, the 
walls broken and the whole hardly dis- 
tinguishable from the surrounding coun- 
try. 

The Mother of Washington — Third Pu- 
pil : — 

The fair Mary Ball, the "belle" of the 
"Northern Neck," was the mother of 
George Washington. She belonged to an 
old Virginia family. Miss Ball had been 
sent to England to finish her education, as 
was the custom in those days. Augustine 
Washington was at the same time on a 
business trip to the mother country and 
the betrothal occurred at this time. 

After her husband's death Mrs. Wash- 
ington managed, in person, all the busi- 
ness of the estates. She is said to have 
been a famous manager, being, it is said, 
"severe and exact, though never cruel nor 
unjust." For several years, late in life, 
she made her home in town, going to and 
from her farm every day at regular inter- 
vals until she became too infirm for the, 
cares and the journey. 

During her last years her favorite resort 
was a craggy ledge of rocks, shaded by 
great trees, on her daughter Betty's estate 
only a few minutes' walk from her own 
home. By her own request she was 
buried just above these rocks. She died 
August 25, 1789. Her grave is marked by 
a simple granite monument erected by 
the women of America. 

The Childhood Home of Washington — 
Fourth Pupil : — 

In the year 1743 the home at Wake- 
field was destroyed by fire. The family 
then removed to one of the estates. The 
father died the same year. Congress sev- 
eral years ago purchased the small plat of 
ground at Wakefield where Washington 
was born. All that is now distinguishable 
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chimney pile. The spot is now marked by 
a marble shaft, and an iron pier to ac- 
commodate, steamers bearing visitors to 
the, famous spot. 

The School Days of Washington — Fifth 
Pupil : — 
Washington's earlier education was di- 
rected by his mother. To her training 
lie owed much of his needed self-command. 
He afterward attended local schools near 
his home, one of these being the same 
academy that prepared Madison and Mon- 
roe for college. It is said that Washington 
early manifested a preference for legal 
forms, surveying, and military training. 
In all branches of school work his records 
were examples of accuracy and neatness. 

Early Employment of Washington — Sixth 
Pupil : — 
Although a comparatively wealthv 
young man, Washington was not content 
to "eat the bread of idleness." At the 
age of fifteen he became a surveyor, leav- 
ing the home of his mother for that of his 
brother Lawrence at Mt. Vernon. There 
are yet records of surveys made by him in 
northern Virginia and the Shenandoah 
valley. He continued this work for three 
years. 

Washington, the Soldier — Seventh Pu- 
pil: — 

It was while he was yet a surveyor that 
Washington was sent on that long and 
perilous journey through the wilderness 
with a message to the French commander 
at Lake Erie. In the French and Indian 
War, which grew out of this journey, 
Washington was placed in command of the 
colonial troops. Much of the success of 
this war was due to his untiring zeal and 
labor. 

In the Revolutionary War he was 
rightfully termed "The savior of his 
country." As an officer he was brave, 
enterprising and cautious. His campaigns 
were always judicious and bore evidence, 
of much untiring study. He was capable 



of much endurance amid discouragement, 
as was exemplified in the winter at Valley 
Forge. As a soldier Washington has been 
unequaled in the annals of our country's 
history. 

The Marriage of Washington — Eighth 
Pupil : — 
In 1759 occurred the marriage of 
George Washington and Martha Dan- 
dridge Custis, the widow of John Parks 
Custis. The wife of Washington proved 
herself equal to her high position. Her 
levees were more elaborate and costly 
than any that had yet been given, yet she 
preferred home life and home comforts 
rather than great display ; she, as well as 
her servants, dressed in home-made ma- 
terials. Sixteen spinning wheels were, 
kept constantly in operation in her home. 
When she took up her residence in the 
army her greatest pleasure was in cheer- 
ing the sick, wounded, or discouraged sol- 
dier. 

Washington left no children. It has 
been beautifully said: "Providence left 
him childless that his country might call 
him Father." 

Washington, as President — Ninth Pu- 
pil: — 
On the 30th day of April, 1789, Wash- 
ington was inaugurated President of the 
United States. As President he exercised 
the same virtues that made him so success- 
ful as a soldier. During his administra- 
tion the government's finances were put in 
order and the United States Bank estab- 
lished. He was twice elected to the Presi- 
dential chair, and refused a third term of 
office. After issuing his famous Farewell 
Address, in 1796, he retired to his home 
at Mt. Vernon. 

Domestic Life of Washington — Tenth 
Pupil : — 
George Washington, at the death of his 
father and later at the death of his elder 
brother Lawrence, inherited great wealth. 
On his Potomac plantation he had hun- 



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dreds of slaves, and was served like a 
prince in his Mt. Vernon home. He was 
very fond of horseback riding ; his family 
always had a coach and many fine horses 
at their command. While at home he 
spent much of his time riding and hunt- 
ing. He spent his mornings riding over 
his estates. His afternoons were devoted 
to his business or friends. His evenings 
he spent with his family around a blazing 
fire, cracking nuts and listening to or re- 
citing stories. 

Washington was a consistent Christian 
of the Episcopal faith. He was a member 
of the Masonic lodge at Fredericksburg. 
This lodge is yet the proud possessor of 
the records containing entries of dues paid 
him, as well as his regalia and the Bible 
on which he took the oath as a member. 
It was printed in England in 1688. 

The Death of Washington — Eleventh 
Pupil : — 
The death of Washington occurred De- 
cember 14, 1799. While riding over his 
plantation he was caught in a heavy rain ; 
from this cause he contracted a severe cold 
which developed into acute laryngitis. 
His illness was of short duration. His last 
hours were marked by calmness and dig- 
nity. His dying words were: "I die 
hard, but I am not afraid to go." The 
whole American people mourned him ; all 
public bodies adjourned on the day of his 
burial. Congress in a body listened to an 
eloquent eulogy delivered by Gen. Henry 
Lee. His sacred dust rests with that of 
his wife at Mt. Vernon. 

HISTORICAL THOUGHTS. 

"The riches of a commonwealth 
Are free, strong minds and hearts of 

health ; 
And more to her than gold or gain, 
The cunning hand and cultured brain." 
— John Greenleaf Whittier. 

"Let our object be. our country, our 
whole country, and nothing but our coun- 
try." — Daniel Webster. 



"The union of lakes, the union of lands, 

The union of states, none can sever ; 

The union of hearts, the union of hands, 

And the flag of our Union forever." 

— James Russell Lowell. 

"Be just and fear not. 
Let all thou aim'st at be thy country's, 
And God's, and truth's." 

— William Shakespeare. 

"The God who gave us life gave us lib- 
erty at the same time." — Thomas Jeffer- 
son. 

"We cannot honor our country with too 
deep a reverence ; we cannot love her with 
an affection too pure and fervent." — 
Grinke. 

"The heights of great men gained and 

kept, 

Was not attained by sudden flight ; 

But they, while their companions slept, 

Were toiling upward in the night." 

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 

THOUGHTS FROM THE PEN OF WASHINGTON. 

When another speaks be attentive your- 
self and disturb not the audience. 

Speak not evil of the absent — it is un- 
just. 

Labor to keep alive, in your breast that 
little spark of celestial fire called con- 
science. 

When we assumed the soldier we did not 
lay aside the citizen. 

We must not despair; the. game is yet 
in our hands — to play it well is all we 
have to do. 

Promote as an object of primary im- 
portance institutions for the general dif- 
fusion of knowledge. 

Let us have a government by which our 
lives, liberties and properties will be se- 
cured. 

The great Searcher of Human Hearts is 
my witness that I have no wish which 
aspires beyond the humble and happy lot 
of living and dying a private citizen, on 
my own farm. 



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¥o persevere in one's duty and to be 
silent is the best answer to a calumny. 

There is not a man living who wishes 
more sincerely than I do the abolition of 
slavery. But there is only one proper and 
effectual mode by which it can be accom- 
plished, and that is by legislative authori- 
ty; and this, so far as my suffrage can 
go, shall never be wanting. 

The name American which belongs to 
you in your national capacity must always 
exalt the just pride of patriotism more 
than any appellation derived from local 
discriminations. 

The very idea of the power and right 
of the people to establish government pre- 
supposes the duty of every individual to 
obey the established government. 



WHITTIER PROGRAMME. 

1 — Song. 

2 — Autobiography — Class exercise. 

3 — Heading — Selection from "Snow 

Bound." 
4 — Recitations — 

"Maud Muller." 

"The Barefoot Boy." 

"The Corn Song." 

"The Yankee Girl." 
5— Pen Picture— "In School Days." 
6— Song. 
7 — Paraphrase — "The Angels of Buena 

Vista." 
8 — Quotations. 
9 — Reci tations — 

"Barbara Freitchie." 

"The Exiles." 
10 — History — The Friends or Quakers. 
11— Reading— "Cities of the Plain." 
12 — Essay — Whittier and His Friend 

Garrison. 
13— Song. 

AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 

(Class Exercise.) 
First Pupil : — 

I was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, 
December 17, 1807. My parents were 
Friends or Quakers. I was born in a lit- 



tle, old, rambling farm-house, and my 
home, life was very similar to that of most 
country boys. I was fond of all sports, 
and especially liked to roam, barefooted, 
through the woods in summer, and bury 
my toes in the warm dust of the wayside. 
I milked the cows and drove them to pas- 
ture, hoed the corn, and cared for the gar- 
den. I loved the farm and its work, and 
knew nothing of the city and its many 
fascinations. My mother was a very lov- 
able woman and never tired telling stories 
of the Indians and her child-life. I can 
see her now as she sits at the old spinning- 
wheel, working and entertaining her 
children. 

We had a great deal of company, es- 
pecially the ministers of our church, and 
my mother never failed to make them 
welcome, although many times our home 
was taxed to its fullest extent to shelter 
them. 

Second Pupil : — 

I was fond of books from my early boy- 
hood, but seldom had an opportunity to 
obtain books for reading. My first knowl- 
edge of poetry was gained from a wander- 
ing Scotchman, a man of all work, who 
used to wander through the. country work- 
ing at all sorts of work for a livelihood. 
He was a great lover of the poet Burns, 
and sang his ballads w T hile at his work. I 
stood near and eagerly caught every word 
and thus learned snatches of the ballads, 
which were treasured in my heart long 
after the wandering singer had departed. 
After entering school my schoolmaster 
made me a gift of a copy of Burns' poems 
and then I was content. Soon I began 
writing poetry myself, simply for the 
pleasure it afforded me. 

I attended a country school a few 
months each year, and finished my educa- 
tion by one year in the Haverhill Acad- 
emy, having earned the money by mend- 
ing shoes for our neighbors. 

Third Pupil : — 

After leaving school I became a news- 
paper editor, first editing the home paper, 



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and afterward a Hartford paper. Now 
began the slavery agitation that afterward 
terminated in the great war. My sympa- 
thies were wholly with the downtrodden 
negro race, and it was at this time that 
William Lloyd Garrison and I became firm 
friends, and began the, battle with the pen 
together. These were troublesome times, 
bnt we finally gained the victory, although 
w T e were mobbed by the infuriated people. 
During this time I had not written many 
poems, however those that had been writ- 
ten were in freedom's cause. 

Fourth Pupil: — 

At the close of the war I settled down 
to hard work with my pen, and devoted the 
greater part of my time to poetry. 

Among the poems I have written are: 
"Snow Bound' 7 (which many people say is 
the best work I have ever done), "The 
Tent on the Beach," "Among the Hills," 
"Bridal of Pennacook," and many others 
that I will not tire you by enumerating. 



GLEANINGS EROM WHITTIER. 

STILL sits the schoolhouse by the road, 
A ragged beggar sunning; 
Around it still the. sumac grows, 
And blackberry vines are running." 
— In School Days. 

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, 
The saddest are these, 'It might have, 
been.' " — Maud Mutter. 

"Slow decays the forest monarch, closer 
girds the fell embrace, 
Till the tree is seen no longer and the 
vine is in its place." 

— The Slaves of Martinique. 

"Alas for him who never sees 
The stars shine through his cypress trees ; 
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, 
Nor looks to see the break of day 
Across the mournful marbles play." 

"If we have whispered truth, whisper no 
longer ; 



Speak as the, tempest does, sterner and 
stronger." 

"Last night I saw the sunset melt through 
my prison bars, 
Last night across my damp earth-floor fell 
the pale gleam of stars." 

— Cassandra Southwick. 

"I am sorry that I spelled the word, 
I hate to go above you; 
Because, — the brown eyes lower fell — 
Because, you see, I love you." 

— In School Days. 

"Ah, well, for us all some sweet hope lies 
Dimly hidden from mortal eyes, 
And in the hereafter angels may 
Koll from the grave the stone away." 
— Maud Mutter. 

"The hills are dearest which our childish 
feet 
Have climbed the earliest, and the 

streams most sweet 
Are ever those at which our young lips 

drank, 
Stooped to their waters o'er the grassv 
bank." 

— The Bridal of Pennacook. 

"The tissue of the Life to be 

We weave with colors all our own, 
And in the field of Destiny 
We reap as we have sown." 

"The west winds blow, and, singing low, 
I hear the glad streams run, 
The windows of my soul I throw 
Wide open to the sun." 

— My Psalm. 

"But life shall on and upward go, 
Th' eternal step of Progress beats 
To that great anthem, calm and slow, 
Which God repeats." 

— The Reformer. 

"The riches of the commonwealth 
Are free, strong minds, and hearts of 

health ; 
And more to her than gold or grain, 
The cunning hand and cultured brain." 

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"And one in heart, as one in blood, 
Shall all her peoples be; 
The hands of human brotherhood 
Are clasped beneath the sea." 

"Keep in the little maiden's breast 
The pity which is now its guest! 
Let not her cultured years make less 
The childhood charm of tenderness." 

"The crowning fact, 
The kingliest act 
Of Freedom is the freeman's vote." 



A DAY WITH ALFRED TENNYSON. 

1— Song— "Break, Break, Break." 
2 — Biographical Sketch. 
3 — Recitations — 

a. "The Dying Swan." 

b. "The Miller's Daughter." 

c. "Death of the Old Year." 
4 — Song — "Crossing the Bar." 

5 — Pantomime — "The May Queen." 

6 — Story — "Enoch Arden." 

7— Reading— "Dora." 

8— Song— "Sweet and Low." 

9 — Recitations — 

a. "The Goose." 

b. "Ulysses." 



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. "Margaret." 



-Song- 



" Sweet, my Child, I Live for 
Thee." 
11 — Quotations from Tennyson. 
12 — Closing Song— "Blow 



Bugle Blow 



BIOGRAPHICAL, SKETCH. 

Alfred Tennyson was born at Soinersby, 
near Spilsby, England, Aug. 6, 1810. 

His father was the Rev. George. Clayton 
Tennyson, LL. D., a Lincolnshire clergy- 
man. Alfred's mother was the daughter 
of Rev. Stephen Eyche. To the Rev. 
Tennyson were born eleven children, sev- 
en of whom were. sons. The three eldest, 
Frederick, Charles and Alfred formed a 
brotherhood of poets, though Alfred is the 
only one who gained great literary dis- 
tinction. 

At an early age Tennyson showed signs 
of poetic powers. On one occasion, when 



the members of the family were going to 
church, Charles handed Alfred a slate and 
gave him a subject for a poem. Upon re- 
turning home, Alfred took the slate, to his 
brother, with a poem covering both sides. 
Charles scanned the lines, then handed the 
slate back with the encouragement, "Yes, 
Alfred, you can write." The next in- 
stance was not so encouraging. Upon the 
death of his grandmother the young poet 
was asked to write an elegy that would 
be appropriate. The task was performed, 
whereupon Alfred's grandfather handed 
the boy ten shillings, saying, "There, that 
is the first money you have earned by your 
poetry, and, take my word for it, it will 
be the last." But the youth persevered, 
and, before he was nineteen, published a 
volume of poems conjointly with his 
brother Charles. In 1829 he gained the 
Chancellor's medal for an English prize 
poem, his subject being "Timbuctoo;" 
this was during the time he was a student 
at Cambridge. His father's death in 1830 
compelled him' to leave college without a 
degree. 

Tennyson's fame w r as established in 
1830, when he published his "Poems, 
Chiefly Lyrical." In 1833 he published 
another volume, giving unusual signs of 
poetic power. The two volumes published 
in 1842 raised him to the position of ab- 
solute superiority. These volumes, en- 
titled "Poems," contained many of his 
first poems completely revised and many 
new ones, among them were: "Morte 
d' Arthur ;" "Godiva ;" "The May Queen ;" 
"Dora" and "Locksley Hall." 

"In Memonam" was written in memory 
of his dear friend and schoolmate, Arthur 
Hallam, who died very suddenly in 1833. 
This friend was betrothed to a sister of 
Tennyson. The young friends had played 
and studied and traveled together, and had 
anticipated a brilliant and happy life in 
the society of each other. 

Upon the death of Wordsworth, in 
1850, the queen appointed Alfred Tenny- 
son Poet Laureate. Among the later of 
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Holy Grail;" "Maud;" and "Gareth and 
Lynette." 

In 1850, Tennyson was united in mar- 
riage with Miss Emily Sellwood; in 1853 
he established his home at Farringford on 
the Isle of Wight. In later years he pur- 
chased a summer home at Aldworth, 
where he died, October 6, 1892. 

At his funeral services in Westminster 
Abbey, October 12th, his beautiful poem 
"Crossing the Bar," was sung by the 
choir; his body was placed in the poet's 
corner beside that of Robert Browning. 

QUOTATIONS FROM TENNYSON. 

"The desolate creeks and pools among, 
Were flooded over with eddying song." 
— The Dying Swan. 

"Come away ; for Life and Thought 
Here no longer dwell; 
But in a city glorious — 
A great and distant city — have bought 
A mansion incorruptible. 
Would they could have staid with us." 
— The Deserted House. 

"My life is full of weary days, 
But good things have not kept aloof." 

— Eleanore. 

"If I were loved, as I desire to be, 
What is there in the great sphere of the 

earth, 
And range of evil between death and 

birth, 
That I should fear, — if I were but loved 

by thee ?" —Poland. 

"He owns the fatal gift of eyes, 
That read his spirit blindly wise, 
Not simple as a thing that dies." 

— The Two Voices. 

"Sweet and low, sweet and low, 

Wind of the western sea, 
Low, low, breathe and blow, 

Wind of the western sea ! 
Over the rolling waters go, 
Come from the dying moon, and blow, 

Blow him again to me; 
While my little one, while my pretty one, 
sleeps," — The Princess. 



"The splendor falls on castle walls, 

And snowy summits old in story; 
The long light shakes across the lakes, 

And the wild cataract leaps in glory. 
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes fly- 
ing, 
Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, 
dying." — The Bugle-Song. 

"More things are wrought by prayer 
Than this world dreams of." 

"I hope to see my Pilot face to face 
When I have crost the bar." 

— "Crossing the Bar. 

"The woman's cause is man's ; they rise or 
sink 
Together, dwarf'd or godlike, bond or 
free." 



A DAY WITH ALICE CARY. 

SUGGESTIVE PROGRAMME. 

1 — Song. 

2 — Biographical Sketch. 

3— Song. 

4 — Gleanings from Alice Cary. 

5 — Recitations — 

a. "Nobility." 

b. "A Dream of Home." 

c. "Pictures of Memory." 
6— Song. 

7 — Beading — "An Order for a Pic aire." 
8 — Description — "Clovernook." 
9 — Oration — Phoebe Cary. 

10— Song. 

1 1 — Recitations — 

a. "My Dream of Dreams." 

b. "The Poet to the Painter." 

c. "The Old Homestead." 
12 — Closing Song. 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 

Alice Cary was born in the Miami 
Valley, eight miles north of Cincinnati, 
Ohio, April 26, 1820. Her parents were 
people of culture, but possessed little of 
this world's goods. The house in which 
the poetess was born is described in "An 
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little and black and old/' also in "The Old 
Homestead :" 

"Our homestead had an ample hearth, 
Where at night we loved to meet ; 
There my mother's voice was always 

kind, 
And her smile was always sweet; 
And there I've sat on my father's knee, 
And watched his thoughtful brow, 
With my childish hands in his raven 

hair, — 
That hair is silver now ! 
But that broad hearth's light, oh that 

broad hearth's light ! 
And my father's look, and my mother's 

smile, 
They are in my heart to-night." 

The education of Alice. Cary was 
limited to the meager opportunities of a 
newly settled country. She commenced 
writing verses at the age. of eighteen years. 
For ten years she contributed prose and 
verse to newspapers. Her sketches of 
rural life, first published in the "National 
Era," under the signature of "Patty Lee," 
attracted much attention. In 1849 the 
"Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary" ap- 
peared in book form in Philadelphia. 

In 1850, the. sisters removed to New- 
York and devoted themselves entirely and 
successfully to literary work. The pub- 
lished volumes of Alice Cary are "Clover- 
nook Papers;" "Clovemook Children;" 
"Hagar, a Story of To-Day;" "Lyra and 
Other Poems;" "The Maiden Flascala;" 
"Married, not Mated;" "Pictures of 
Country;" "Lyrics and Hymns;" "The 
Bishop's Sons;" "The Lover's Diary" and 
"Snow Berries." 

Alice Cary never married; her poem, 
"My Dream of Dreams," explains her 
"smile too sweetly sad." 

Alice Cary has been called the "Jean 
Ingelow of America." 

Alice Cary died at her home in New 
York, February 12, 1871. The graves of 
the sisters are side by side in Greenwood 
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



GLEANINGS I-KO.M ALICE CARY. 

"True worth is in being, not seeming, — 
In doing each day that goes by 
Some little good — not in dreaming 
Of great things to do by and by. 
For whatever men say in their blindness, 

And spite of the fancies of youth, 

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, 

And nothing so royal as truth." 

— Nobility. 

"O wild flowers, wet with tearful dew, 
O woods, with starlight shining through ! 
My heart is back to-night with you." 
— A Dream of Home. 

"Dear Lord, how little man's award 
The right or wrong attest, 
And he who judges least, I think 
Is he who judges best." 

— The Best Judgment. 

"I hold that Christian grace abounds 
Where charity is seen; that when 
We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds 
Of love to men." — My Creed. 

"Sweetly his pale arms folded 
My neck in a tender embrace, 
As the light of immortal beauty 

Silently covered his face ; 
And when the arrows of sunset 

Lodged in the tree-tops bright, 
He fell, in his saint-like beauty, 
Asleep by the gates of light." 

— Pictures of Memory. 

"You, sir, know 
That you on the canvas are to repeat 
Things that are fairest, things most 

sweet, — 
Woods and cornfields and mulberry 

tree, — 
The mother — the lads, with their bird, 

at her knee, 
But, oh, that look of reproachful woe ! 
High as the heavens your name I'll 

shout, 
If you paint me the picture, and leave 

that out." 

— An Order for A Picture. 



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"Don't you be afraid boys — 
To whistle loud and long ; 
Although your modest sisters 
May call it "rude" or "wrong." 

— The Boys. 

"We get back our mete as we measure — 
We cannot do wrong and feel right, 
Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure, 

For justice avenges each slight. 
The air for the wing of the sparrow, 
The bush for the robin and wren, 
But alway the path that is narrow, 

And straight, for the children of men." 

— Nobility. 

"My soul is full of whispered song, — 
My blindness is my sight ; 
The shadows that I feared so long 
Are full of light and life." 

— Dying Hymn. 



A DAY WITH WILLIAM CULLEN 
BRYANT. 

SUGGESTIVE PROGRAMME. 

1 — Song. 

2 — Biography of Bryant. 

3 — Quotations from Bryant. 

4 — Song. 

5 — Recitations — 

a. "A Summer Ramble." 

b. "The Snow-Shower." 

c. "To a Waterfowl." 
6— Song. 

7 — Description — "Cedarmere" — the 

home of Bryant. 
8 — Reading — "Thanatopsis." 
9— Song. 
1 — Recitations — 

a. "A Forest Hymn." 

b. "Beside the Gate." 

c. "The Death of the Flowers." 
11 — Closing Song. 

BIOGRAPHY. 

William Cullen Bryant was born in 
Cummington, a little hamlet on the banks 
of a clear mountain stream among the 
hills of western Massachusetts, November 
3, 1794. His father was Peter Bryant, a 



physician of considerable literary culture, 
and a person who had traveled quite ex- 
tensively. The father took an unusual 
interest in the culture of his children, and 
was amply rewarded for all his pains. 
Bryant's mother was Miss Sarah Snell, of 
Mayflower stock, being a descendant of 
John Alden. Thus our poet had an 
honorable and cultured ancestry. 

As a child Bryant was very frail, and 
the chances for living seemed decidedly 
against him. It is said that his head was 
of such an enormous size as to cause his 
father uneasiness. Dr. Bryant decided 
that the size of William's head must be 
reduced. He thought to accomplish the 
desired result by giving the babe a cold 
bath daily. Accordingly two of his stu- 
dents took the child each morning and 
plunged it, head and all, into a clear, cold 
spring that bubbled from the ground near 
the house. Whether the size of the head 
was reduced or not, we are unable to tell, 
but the world of popular literature has 
ample cause to rejoice over the massive 
size of Bryant's head and heart and mind. 

In 1810, at the age of sixteen, he en- 
tered Williams College, where he studied 
for two years. He soon distinguished 
himself for his attainments in language 
and literature. 

In 1812 he withdrew from college and 
entered upon the study of law; he was 
admitted to the bar in 1815. He practiced 
first at Plainfield, and afterward at Great 
Barrington; he soon attained high stand- 
ing in the local and state courts, but his 
tastes inclined him rather to literature 
than law. 

Bryant began to write poetry when a 
child. At the age of thirteen, "The Em- 
bargo" and "The Spanish Revolution" 
were published, and passed into a second 
edition in the succeeding year. The age 
of the author was called in question, and 
his friends came forward with proof that 
he was but thirteen years of age. When 
but eighteen years of age he wrote the 
imperishable "Thanatopsis." From this 
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never idle. Among his most popular 
works may be mentioned "The Indian 
Girl's Lament," "Song of the Stars," "No 
Man Knoweth His Sepulchre," "A Walk 
at Sunset," "The Hymn to Death" (while 
he was writing "The. Hymn to Death" his 
father was dying at the age of fifty-four), 
"Letters of a Traveler," "Letters from 
Spain and Other Countries," and a vol- 
ume of poems, entitled "Thirty Poems." 

Bryant traveled extensively, making 
two visits to the South, one to Cuba and 
Mexico, and crossing the ocean six times. 
In his choice of a life companion Bryant 
showed rare practical wisdom as well as 
refinement of mind and heart. Fanny 
Fairchild, whom he describes so charming- 
ly in his poem, "Oh Fairest of the Rural 
Maids," was the daughter of a prosperous 
farmer on Green River. She was a noble 
type of genuine womanhood, sensible, 
beautiful in character, and possessed "a 
wonderfully frank and sweet expression of 
face," and an indescribable, charm of 
manner, of which even the ravages of in- 
creasing years could not rob her. 

In 1843 Bryant purchased a summer 
home called "Cedarmere" at Roslyn, Long 
Island, and here Mrs. Bryant died in 
1866. 

Bryant was frequently called upon to 
pay public tributes to the memory of 
Americans. He pronounced the funeral 
oration of the artist, Thomas Cole, deliv- 
ered a lecture upon the life and writings 
of James Fenimore Cooper, paid a similar 
tribute to his friend, Washington Irving, 
made an address on the life and achieve- 
ments of Samuel F. B. Morse, on the oc- 
casion of the dedication of his statue in 
Central Park, New York, in 1871; ad- 
dresses on Shakespeare and Scott on simi- 
lar occasions in 1872. His last address, 
on the unveiling of a statue to Mazzini in 
Central Park, was given May 29th, 1878. 
Being partially overcome by the heat 
while speaking, as he was entering the 
home of a friend, later in the day, he fell, 
striking his head on the marble steps; 
lived in a semi-conscious condition about 



two weeks, dying June 12th, 1878. His 
interment was at Roslyn, the 14th. Bryant 
has been called "The Wordsworth of 
America," "The Founder of American 
Poetry," and "The Father of American 
Poetry." 

QUOTATIONS FROM BRYANT. 

"It is sweet 
To linger here, among the flitting birds 
And leaping squirrels, wandering brooks, 

and winds 
That shake the leaves, and scatter, as they 

pass, 
A fragrance from the cedars, thickly set 
With pale blue berries. In these, peaceful 

shades — 
Peaceful, unpruned, immeasurably old — 
My thoughts go up the long, dim path of 

years, 
Back to the earliest days of liberty." 
— The Antiquity of Freedom. 

"The melancholy days are come, the sad- 
dest of the year, 

Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and 
meadows, brown and sere." 

— The Death of the Flowers. 

"There's a dance of leaves in that aspen 
bower, 
There's a titter of winds in that beech- 
en tree, 
There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile 
on the flower, 
And a laugh from the brook, that runs 
to the sea." 

— The Gladness of Nature. 

"Go forth, under the open sky, and list 
To Nature's teachings, while from all 

around — 
Earth and her waters, and the depths of 

air- 
Comes a still voice." — Thanatopsis. 

"The quiet August noon has come; 
A slumberous silence fills the sky; 
The fields are still, the woods are dumb, 
In glassy sleep the waters lie." 

— A Summer Ramble. 

"Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again ; 
The eternal years of God are hers ; 



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But error, wounded, writhes with pain, 
And dies among her worshipers." 
— Be flections on a Battlefield. 

"The groves were God's first temples." 
— Forest Hymn. 

"So live that when thy summons comes to 

join 
The innumerable caravan, that moves 
To that mysterious realm where each 

shall take 
His chamber in the silent halls of death, 
Then go, not like the quarry slave at 

night 
Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained 

and soothed 
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy 

grave 
Like one who wraps the drapery of his 

couch 
Around him, and lies down to pleasant 

dreams." — Thanatopsis. 

"The same sweet sounds are in my ear 
My early childhood loved to hear." 

"The rain is falling where they lie, but 
the cold November rain, 
Calls not from out the lowly earth, our 
lovely ones again." 

— The Death of the Flowers. 



A DAY WITH RUDYARD KIPLING. 

SUGGESTIVE PROGRAMME. 

1 — Song. 

2 — Biographical sketch of the life of 

Kipling. 
3— Song. 
4 — Recitations — 

a. "Soldier, Soldier." 

b. "The Young British Soldier." 

c. "My Rival." 
5 — Song. 

6 — ( Concert Recitation — "Recessional." 

7 — Song. 

8 — Recitations — 

a. "Christmas in India." 
I). "The Song of* Women." 
c. "Cleared." 

9 — Gleanings from Kipling. 



10 — Description — India. 
11 — Closing Song. 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 

Rudyard Kipling was born in an Indian 
bungalow, in Bombay, India, in 1865. 
His father, Mr. John Kipling, was an 
artist and writer, and had been sent to 
India from England as Principal of the. 
School of Industrial Art at Lahore. His 
mother was bright and witty, a woman 
worthy of the son who is to-day the very 
first in the army of writers, captain of 
them all. 

As the boy Rudyard grew up in that 
home in far-off India his parents realized 
that he could not there receive such an 
education as they desired for him, so they 
sent him to England. Here he attended 
a school called "The United Service Col- 
lege," at Northam in Devon County. It 
was a military school, and the training 
was severe, as most of the students were 
expected to become soldiers or sailors, 
While here he edited a school paper and 
contributed to a North Devon journal. At 
eighteen years of age Kipling returned to 
Lahore, India, but instead of becoming a 
soldier, he began a literary career by work- 
ing on a newspaper called "The Civil and 
Military Gazette." He worked as a proof- 
reader, sub-editor, reporter and general 
assistant, but all this hard work did not 
prevent him from exercising his keen 
powers of observation on the life around 
him. 

At twenty-one years of age Kipling 
published his first book, called "Depart- 
mental Ditties." Kipling gives the fol- 
lowing description of how the book was 
published : "Men in the army and gov- 
ernment service wrote me. that my rhymes 
might be made into a book. Some of them 
had been sung to banjos around camp- 
fires, and some had run as far down the 
coast as Ragoon, and up to Mandalay. A 
real book was out of the question, but I 
knew the. office plant was at my disposal, 
if I did not use office time; so there was 
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A DAY WITH RUDYARD K1P1JSG. 



docket, wire-stitched to imitate a govern- 
ment envelope, printed on one side, only, 
bound in brown paper and secured with 
red tape. Of these books we made some 
hundreds. Then I took reply post-cards, 
printed the news of the birth of my book 
on one side, and the blank order form on 
the other, and posted them up and down 
the empire. The money came back in 
poor, but honest, rupees, direct, and every 
copy sold in a few weeks." 

Encouraged by the success of his first 
attempt, Kipling soon published his 
"Plain Tales from the Hills," a real book, 
this time containing short stories of life in 
India. Then came "Studies in Black and 
White," "The Story of the Gadsbvs," 
"Under the Deodars," "Soldiers Three," 
"Mother Maturin," "The Book of Forty- 
five Mornings/' and a novel, "The Light 
that Failed." 

For some years Kipling resided in Lon- 
don, but in 1891 he visited* the United 
States and published "American Notes," 
and soon after permanently settled there, 
near Brattleboro, Vermont. 

The recent works of Kipling are "Mine 
Own People" (1892), "Many Inventions" 
(1893), "The Jungle Book" (1894), "The 
New Jungle Book" (1895), "The. Seven 
Seas" (1896), "Slaves of the Lamp" 
(1897), and "Captains Courageous" 
(1897). 

His power to reach all kinds of people 
is shown in the wide difference of opinion 
as to his best work. Many claim that his 
poetry has made, him great, others the 
Mulvaney stories, still others his longer 
stories like "Captains Courageous." But, 
if the children should decide, there would 
be a unanimous vote for the "Jungle. 
Books." 

GLEANINGS FROM KIPLING. 

"My garden blazes brightly with the rose- 
bush and the peach, 
And the koil sings above it, in the siris 
by the well ; 
From the creeper-covered trellis comes 
the squirrel's chattering speech, 



And the blue-jay screams and flutters 
where the cheery sat-bhai dwell. 

"But the rose has lost its fragrance, and 
the koil's note is strange ; 
I am sick of endless sunshine, sick of 
blossom-burdened bough. 
Give me back the leafless w r oodlands 
where the winds of Springtime 
range — 
Give me back one day in England, for 
it's Spring in England now !" 
— In Springtime. 

"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and 
never the twain shall meet, 

Till Earth and Sky stand presently at 
God's great Judgment Seat ; 

But there is neither East nor West, Bor- 
der, nor Breed, nor Birth, 

When two strong men stand face to face, 
'tho they come from the. ends of the 
earth !" 
— The Ballad of East and West. 

"Twelve hundred million men are spread 
About this Earth, and I and you 
Wonder, when you and I are dead, 
What will those luckless. millions do?" 
— The Last Department. 

"Shun— shun the Bowl ! That fatal, facile 

drink, 
Has ruined many geese who dipped their 

quills in 't; 
Bribe, murder, marry, but steer clear of 

ink, 
Save when you write receipts for paid-up 

bills in 't. 
There may be silver in the 'blue-black' — 

all 
I know of is the iron and the. gall." 

— The Man Who Could Write. 

"Man may hold all sorts of posts 
If he'll only hold his tongue." 

— Pink Dominoes. 

"O, the white dust on the highway ! 
O, the stenches in the byway! 

O, the clammy fog that hovers over 
earth ! 



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LITERARY QUERIES. 



And at home they're making merry 
'Neath the white and scarlet berry — 
What part have India's exiles in their 
mirth ?" — Christmas in India. 

"In intolerable stillness 

Rose one little, little star, 
And it chuckled at my illness, 

And it mocked me from afar; 
And its brethren came and eyed me, 

Called the universe to aid, 
Till I lay, with naught to hide me, 
'Neath the scorn of all things made." 
— La Nuit Blanche. 

"God of our fathers, known of old — 
Lord of our far-flung battle line — 
Beneath whose awful hand we hold 
Dominion over palm and pine — 
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
Lest we forget — lest we forget !" 

— Recessional. 




INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS. 

HO invented a steam wagon before 
locomotives were in use ? (Thom- 
as Blanchard.) 

What great inventor was the son of an 
inventor? (Richard Hoe.) 

Who invented a method for propelling 
canal boats by an endless chain? (Peter 
Cooper. ) 

What great inventor was nick-named 
"Looney" by his companions? (Thomas 
A. Edison.) 

Who invented the Atlantic cable ? (Cy- 
rus W. Field.) 

What invention was called "Fulton's 
Folly?" (The Steamboat.) 

Who lived in extreme poverty for sev- 
eral years while perfecting his inventions ? 
(Samuel F. B. Morse.) 

What great inventor built the throne for 
"King Cotton ?" (Eli Whitney. ) 

Who made the first malleable cast iron ? 
(Seth Boynton.) 

Who invented steel plates for bank- 
notes \ ( Jacob Perkins. ) 



Who invented the pistols used in the 
Mexican War ? ( Samuel Colt. ) 

Who invented the reaping machine ? 
(C. H. McCormick.) 

Who was the first person in the United 
States to apply for a patent? (Nathan 
Reed.) 

Name a half-breed Indian who invented 
an alphabet? (George Guess.) 

Who built the "Yankee Cheese-box?" 
(John Ericsson.) 



WHO WAS DESCRIBED AS: 

"A Spanish galleon" (Fuller) ?— (Ben 
Jonson.) 

"An English Man-of-War" (Fuller)? 
— ( Shakespeare. ) 

"A smooth, silent iceberg" (Lowell) ? 
— (W. C. Bryant.) 

"A Leyden jar" (Lowell) ?-— (O. W. 
Holmes. ) 

"A primitive pagan" (Lowell) ? — (R. 
W. Emerson.) 

"An interrogation point ?" (Alexander 
Pope.) 

"The wisest, brightest, meanest of man- 
kind." (Pope) ? — (Francis Bacon.) 

"Poet Squab ?" (John Dry den.) 

"Fanatical high priest of art ?" (John 
Ruskin.) 

"A mass of genuine manhood" (Car- 
lyle) ? — (Samuel Johnson.) 



LITERARY QUERIES. 

VER what poet's grave was a monu- 
ment erected by the teachers of Bal- 
timore, Maryland? (Edgar A. Poe.) 

What poet always took time to answer 
all letters written him by children ? (Eu- 
gene Field.) 

What poet wrote a poem commemorat- 
ing the death of his wife and the birth of 
a child to his friend, H. W. Longfellow ? 
(James R. Lowell.) 




LONGFELLOW EXERCISE— NUMBER 2. 

(Priscilla after the departure of John Alden.) 

"Into each life some rain must fall, 
Some days must be dark and drearv" 

(See page 174.^ 




FATHER TIME AND THE NEW YEAR. 

(A beautiful New Year's Exercise. See page 182.) 

"Ring ou.t the old, ring in the new, 
Ring, happy bells, across the snow." 



SEVEN WONDERS OF AMERICA. 



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What poet, when a child, was noted for 
his abnormally large head? (W. C. 
Bryant. ) 

What writer became an actor in the 
Park Theater, N. Y., when only thirteen 
- years of age? (J. H. Payne.) 

Who is "Paul Pillow?" (Will Carle- 
ton.) 

What poet was for a time engaged as a 
traveling sign-painter and an actor ? (J. 
W. Eiley.) 

Who was the "Quaker Poet?" (J. G., 
Whittier.) 

Who was "Timothy Titcomb ?" (J. G. 
Holland.) 

Name a poet who was also a physician ? 
(O. W. Holmes.) 

What poetess is called the "Sweet Sing- 
er ?" (Margaret E. Sangster.) 

Who was "Patty Lee ?" (Alice Cary.) 



WHO IS MEANT IN: 

"One of the. few immortal names 
That were not born to die ?" 

(Marco Bozarris.) 

"Here lived the gentle peasant prince 
The loving cotter-king?" 

(Robert Burns.) 

"We buried him darkly at dead of night ?" 
(Sir John Moore.) 

"Green be the turf above thee, 
Friend of my better days ?" 

(Jos. R. Drake.) 

"Dead he lay among his books, 
The peace of God was in his looks ?" 
(Bayard Taylor.) 

"The Danube to the Severn gave 

The darkened heart that beat no more ; 
They laid him by the pleasant shore 
And in the hearing of the wave ?" 

(Arthur Hallam.) 



WHO WAS THE FIRST: 

"English Novelist?" (Daniel Defoe.) 
"English Lexicographer?" (Samuel 
Johnson.) 

"English Printer?" (W T m. Caxton.) 
"English Laureate ?" (Edmund Spen- 
ser. ) 

"American Historian?" (John Smith.) 
"American Poet?" (Anne Bradstreet.) 
"Writer of English Grammar?" (Lind- 
ley Murray.) 

"American Novelist?" (Chas. Brock- 
den Brown.) 

"American Lexicographer?" (Noah 
Webster. ) 

"American Sea Novelist?" (J. F. 
Cooper.) • 

WHO MADE FAMOUS: 

"Stratf ord-on-Avon ?" ( Shakespeare. ) 
"Twickenham?" (Alex. Pope.) 
"Grasmere?" (Wm. Wordsworth.) 
"Bedford Jail ?" (John Bunyan.) 
"Selbourne?" (Gilbert White.) 
"River Ayr ?" (Robert Burns. ) 
"Amesbury?" (W T hittier.) 
"Hudson River?" (Irving Drake.) 
"Walden?" (H. D. Thoreau.) 
"Chayenne Mountain ?" (H. H. Jack- 
son.) , 

SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD. 

1 — Egyptian Pyramids. 

2 — Mausoleum of Artemisia. 

3 — Temple of Diana at Ephesus. 

4 — Walls and Hanging Gardens of Baby- 
lon. 

5 — Colossus of Rhodes. 

6 — The Statue of Jupiter Olympus. 

7 — The Pharos or Watch Tower of Alex- 
andria. 

SEVEN WONDERS OF AMERICA. 

1 — Niagara Falls. 

2 — Yellowstone Park. 

3 — Mammoth Cave. 

4 — Canons and Garden of the Gods. 

5 — The Giant Trees of California. 



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-The Natural Bridge. 
-The Yosemite. Valley. 



MOTTOES OF THE STATES. 



Arkansas — Regnant Populi. 

California — Eureka. 

Colorado — Ml Sine Numine. 

Connecticut — Qui Transtulit. 

Delaware — Liberty and Independence. 

Georgia — Constitution. 

Illinois — State Sovereignty — -National 
Union. 

Indiana — Constitution. 

Iowa — Our Liberties We Prize — Our 
Rights We Will Maintain. 

Kansas — Ad Astra Per Aspera. 

Kentucky — United We Stand, Divided 
We Fall. 

Louisiana — Justice. 

Maine — Dirigo. 

Maryland — Crescite et Multiplicamini. 

Massachusetts — Euse Petit Placidam 
Sub Liberate Quietem. 

Michigan — E Pluribus Unum — Tuebor 
— Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amaenam Cir- 
cum spice. 

Minnesota — L' Etoile du Nord. 

Missouri — United We Stand, Divided 
We Fall — Salus Populi Suprema Lex 
Esto. 

Nebraska — Equality Before the Law. 

Nevada — All for Our Country. 

New York — Excelsior. 

Ohio — Imperium in Imperio. 

Oregon — The Union. 

Pennsylvania — Virtue, Liberty, Inde- 
pendence. 

Rhode Island — Hope. 

Tennessee — Agriculture, Commerce. 

Vermont — Freedom and Unity. 

Virginia — Sic Semper Tyrannis. 

West Virginia — Montani Semper Li- 
beri. 

Wisconsin — Forward. 



GEOGRAPHICAL RECREATIONS. 

1 — What and where are the Dry Tortu- 

gas ? 
2— Where is the Eiffel Tower? 



3 — What and where is Fingal's Cave ? 

4 — What and where is the "Gate of 
Tears?" 

5 — What is the Giant's Causeway ? 

6 — Where is the Garden of the Gods ? 

7 — Where are Kensington Gardens ? 

8 — What and where is the Llano Esta- 
cado? 

9 — Where is the Maelstrom? 
10 — Where is the Great Natural Bridge ? 
11— Where is the "Valley of Death?" 
12 — What and where is the Black Forest? 
13 — What was the Colossus of Rhodes ? 
14 — Where is the "Gibraltar of Amer- 
ica ?" 
15 — What is the Jungfrau? 

ANSWERS TO RECREATIONS. 

1. The Dry Tortugas. — These islands 
form a part of a country of Florida, and 
are ten in number; they are situated at 
the extreme end of the Florida Keys. 
They are of coral formation and low and 
barren, except when partly covered with 
mangrove bushes. They are defended by 
fortifications. On Bush or Garden Key is 
Ft. Jefferson, which was used during the 
Civil War as a penal station for rebel pris- 
oners. A lighthouse has been erected up- 
on this same isle. 

2. Eiffel Tower. — This monster tower, 
designed by Engineer Eiffel for the Paris 
Exposition of 1889, has three stories or 
divisions. The first story is sixty meters, 
or one hundred and ninety-five feet high, 
and rests on the arches which join the. four 
foundation-columns that carry upon them 
the entire weight of the huge structure. 
The tower has four distinct sections. Each 
wing is provided with a refreshment 
saloon that may be reached by means of 
winding staircases under the foundation- 
piers. The second story, which is one 
hundred and ninety-five feet above the 
first one, is also reached by four stair- 
cases built inside the supporting columns, 
which make a sharp inward bend, leaving 
but 1,400 square meters for the platform 
and promenade. Here, too, is a com- 
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meters above the tip of the Xotre Dame 
steeple, and the view is almost indescrib- 
able. From here the columns of the tower 
fall in toward each other until they ascend 
a distance of two hundred and seventy-five 
meters (895 feet) above the ground, where 
a third and last story is situated. Only 
one staircase leads to this story, which is 
for the exclusive use of employes of the 
tower, visitors using the elevators. .The 
tower terminates in what is known as the 
lantern, eighty feet above the third sec- 
tion. This place has been set aside for the 
use of scientists in making observations. 

3. Fingal's Cave. — Fingal's Cave is a 
wonderful grotto on the southwest coast of 
Scotland. It is 212 feet deep, 33 feet wide 
at the entrance, and 22 feet wide at its 
inner end. At the opening it is 60 feet 
high, and the walls meet in a beautiful 
arch above basaltic pillars which flank it 
on both sides. The floor of the cave is the 
sea, and at low tide the water is 20 feet 
deep. There are beautifully tinted stalac- 
tites between the pillars of dark gray 
basalt. The cave can be readily entered 
by small boats, excepting at extreme high 
tide. It takes its name from Fingal, the 
legendary hero of Gaelic poetry. 

4. Gate of Tears.— The Straits of Ba- 
belmandeb, the passage from the Persian 
Gulf into the Eed Sea, are called, by the 
Arabs, the "Gate of Tears." These straits 
are very dangerous in rough weather. It 
received its melancholy name from the 
number of shipwrecks that have occurred 
there. 

5. Giant's Causeway. — The name Gi- 
ant's Causeway is often applied to the 
whole range of cliffs in County An- 
trim, on the northeast coast of Ireland, but 
it properly belongs to only a small portion 
of them, which is a platform of basalt in 
closely arranged columns, from fifteen to 
thirty-six feet high, which extend from a 
steep cliff down into the sea till it is lost 
below low water mark. This platform is 
divided across its breadth into three por- 
tions, the Little, Middle and Grand Cause- 



way, these being separated from each other 
by dikes of basalt. The name "Cause- 
way" was given to the platform because it 
appeared in primitive imagination to be a 
road to the water, prepared for the con- 
venience of giants. 

6. The Garden of the Gods.— -The Gar- 
den of the Gods comprises a tract of land 
about five hundred acres in extent, lying 
four miles northeast of Colorado Springs, 
Colorado. It is hemmed in by mountains 
on the north and west, bordered by ravines 
on the south, and on the east by a line of 
old red sandstone cliffs, which shut it en- 
tirely from the. plains. The road enters 
the valley through the "Beautiful Gate," 
a narrow passageway between two lofty 
but narrow ledges of cliffs which is still 
further narrowed by a rock pillar thirty 
feet high standing nearly in the. center. 
The remarkable feature of the garden is 
a number of isolated perpendicular rocks, 
some of them three, hundred and fifty feet 
high, mainly of a very soft, brilliantly-red 
sandstone, though several ridges are of 
white sandstone. The foot-hills in the 
vicinity are many of them capped by sim- 
ilar upheavals. 

7. Kensington Gardens. — These gar- 
dens are located on the west side of Hyde 
Park, London. They comprise a circuit 
two and a half miles in extent. They are 
traversed by walks and ornamented with 
rows and clumps of noble trees. Xear the 
western border stands Kensington Palace, 
an edifice of brick, formerly the home of 
King William III. William III., Queen 
Mary, Queen Anne, and George III. all 
died in this palace, and Queen Victoria 
was born there. 

8. Llano Estacado. — The Llano Es- 
tacado, or Staked Plain of Texas, is lo- 
cated in the western portion of the state, 
and is so called from the great number of 
bare yucca-stems, resembling stakes, seen 
there. 

9. Maelstrom. — The Maelstrom, or 
"grinding stream," is situated on the Xor- 
wegian coast southwest of the Loffoden 



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Isles, and is the most remarkable whirl- 
pool in the. world. It runs between the 
Island of Moskenes and a large solitary 
rock in the middle of the straits. The 
strong ocean currents rushing between the 
Great West Fjord and the outer ocean 
through the channels of the Loffoden Isles 
produces a number of whirlpools, of which 
the Maelstrom is by far the most dan- 
gerous. During severe, storms from the 
west the current runs continually to the 
east at the rate of six knots an hour, with- 
out changing its direction for rising or 
falling tide ; and the stream will boil and 
eddy in such mighty whirls that the larg- 
est steamer cou-d hardly contend success- 
fully with ito waters. 

10. The Great Natural Bridge.— The 
Great Natural Bridge is located in Rock- 
bridge County, Virginia, and spans the 
mountain chasm in which flows the little 
stream Cedar Creek, the bed of which is 
more than two hundred feet below the sur- 
face of the plain. The middle of the arch 
is forty-five feet in perpendicular thick- 
ness, which increases to sixty at its junc- 
ture with the vast abutments. It is sixty 
feet wide and its span is almost ninety 
feet. Across the top is a public road. For 
many years the name, of Washington, cut 
in the rock forming one of the abutments, 
when the "Father of His Country" was a 
lad, stood high above those of all others; 
but in 1818 a student of Washington Col- 
lege, Virginia, Piper by name, climbed 
from the foot to the top of the rock and 
placed his name above that of Washington. 

11. The Valley of Death.— On the Is- 
land of Java is an oval-shaped hollow near 
the summit of a mountain, about thirty- 
five feet in depth and half a mile wide, 
which, from the deadly nature of its at- 
mosphere, is known as the "Valley of 



Death." This atmosphere is loaded with 
carbonic acid gas, and although not at once 
fatal to human beings proves so to either 
dogs or fowls. The valley has seldom 
been explored beyond the borders, as from 
there it is seen that the surface is strewn 
with the bones of tigers, pigs, deer and all 
kinds of birds, and also of human beings. 

12. Black Forest.— The Black Forest 
is a noted wooded mountain chain, situ- 
ated in Baden and Wurtemberg. It ac- 
quired celebrity during the wars of the 
French Revolution. It is rich in mineral 
waters, as the baths of Baden-Baden and 
Wildbad. 

13. Colossus of Rhodes. — The Colos- 
sus of Rhodes ranks as one of the Seven 
Wonders of the world. It was a statue, of 
Apollo, so placed as to bestride the en- 
trance to the harbor. The Colossus was 
over one hundred feet high, and its thumb 
was so large that a man could not clasp it 
with his arms. It was formed of metal 
which was cast in separate pieces, a proc- 
ess which lasted twelve years, and was 
finished 280 B. C. It cost three hundred 
talents, and sixty years after its erection 
was destroyed by an earthquake. 

14. "Gibraltar of America/' — Quebec 
is often called the "Gibraltar of America," 
because by its position and natural and 
artificial means of defence it is the most 
impregnable city of America. 

15. Jungfrau. — The word Jungfraii, 
which signifies "Young Maiden," is the 
name of one of the highest mountains of 
the Bernese Alps. It rises on the bound- 
ary-line between the cantons of Bern and 
Palais, and attains a height of 13,720 
feet. It receives its name from the unsul- 
lied purity and dazzling brightness of the 
snow by which its summit is covered. 



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OUTDOOR GAMES 



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LAWN HOCKEY. 

N old-fashioned game resembling 
Dl ; hockey was "shinny" or "shinty," as 
it is called in some places. In this a 
wooden block, a stone, a ball, or anything 
about two inches in diameter, sufficed for 
a "shinny," while a broom or umbrella 
handle or branch of a tree of suitable shape 
took the place of the present expensive 
hockey stick, with its mathematically cor- 
rect curves and dimensions and finished 
surface. Two large stones about three 
yards apart at each end of the field or 
vacant lot, as it usually chanced to be, 
served as goal marks, between which the 
"shinny" had to be forced. 

The number of players on each side was 
not limited. Every one with the "gang" 
or crowd at the time was expected to play ; 
the. more the merrier. The game was 
started by each "side" lining up at its end 
of the field and then sending its fleetest 
runner to the center, where the "shinny" 
was placed, the side with the fastest runner 
getting first strike. The "off-side" rule 
was observed, "shinny on your own side" 
being the warning cry, which, if not 
obeyed, brought a blow across the offend- 
er's shins. 

Whether "shinny" represents a stage 
from which the present game of hockey 
evoluted, or whether it is a degenerate 
form of the latter, the writer is not certain. 
At any rate the early state of hockey in 
England resembled "shinny," and this is 
now looked upon as the barbarous era out 
of which the game has grown, under the 
fostering care of the Hockey Association 



of England. An important step in the 
development of the game was taken on the 
adoption of the "striking circle," from 
the inside of which the ball must receive 
its final touch in being sent through the 
goal. This feature encouraged ''dribbling" 
and passing between the players and less- 
ened the advantage, of heavy and reckless 
striking, as a ball driven through the. goal 
by a blow outside the striking circle does 
not score. 

Novices at "bullying" who are at all 
nervous have a difficult time controlling 
themselves sufficiently to calmly tap the 
ground and their opponents' sticks thrice 
in succession before making a strike at 
the ball lying so temptingly near. It is so 
easy to succumb to the temptation to avoid 
the last tap, and, instead, strike at the 
ball — fine training in self-control. The 
forwards are the rush line; the object of 
the backs is to feed to them; they do the 
aggressive work, while the men in the rear 
are expected to act on the defensive. The 
position of goal-keeper, although an im- 
portant one, is the least desirable of all. 
Forbidden to leave' his post, he must stand 
there, cold as it may be, and occasionally, 
as the ball comes near, be on the alert to 
interpose himself between the ball and tho 
goal. And the stronger his team the less 
work for him, as the ball will then be kept 
down toward the opponents' goal. He has 
great responsibility, yet with no oppor- 
tunity to distinguish himself in the aggres- 
sive work of the team. Woe befall him 
if he lets the ball pass ; but if he is suc- 
cessful — well, he has simply done his duty. 
It would seem but fair that all the players 



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on the team should take their turn at this 
undesirable post. Bodily contact of player 
with player being only accidental, weight 
does not count for so much as it does in 
football. Speed and endurance are prime 
requisites in a first-class hockey player. 
Be the man ever so light he can soon, with 
steady practice, come into possession of 
these elements. The game is similar to 
football in that it gives a man all-round 
exercise in the open air. The vigorous 
running gives splendid development of 
heart and lung power, even surpassing foot 
ball in this respect. The player gets the 
wrist of a fencer and the accuracy of a 
golfer, for he must be able to twist the 
ball quickly from his opponent and to pick 
it up and dribble it along at his greatest 
speed down the field before he may hope 
to "pass" successfully to his companions 
and earn the reputation of a good team 
player. The game calls for physical cour- 
age, though, perhaps, not to the same, ex- 
tent as football; still it requires pluck 
to dash in where sticks are apparently 
flying rather wildly, at imminent danger 
to heads as well as shins and ankles. The 
element of danger, as might be supposed, 
is greater among novices, for, as the player 
becomes more experienced, he learns how 
to keep his stick down, to hit the ball 
rather than the other fellow's shins, to 
jump and avoid a reckless blow and to 
dodge a hard hit ball from near goal. He 
learns that reckless striking only wastes 
time, endangers others, besides exposing 
his team to losses from penalties inflicted 
by the umpire. The percentage of acci- 
dents from hockey is much smaller than 
in football, and the injuries are never of 
a serious character, being merely barked 
shins or knuckles, and occasionally a 
bruised head from a backward spring or 
an "off-side" play. The proportion of sore 
shins and knuckles can be greatly lessened 
by proper covering with shin guards and 
gloves. To put it in basket ball style — 
hockey "can be. played on any ground free 
from obstruction." Of course, the nearer 
level the ground the better the control of 



the ball. An ordinary vacant lot cleared 
of rubbish will furnish opportunity for 
many enjoyable games. There need be 
no limit to the number of players, other 
than the size of the field, unless a team 
is formed to play outside teams. 

RULES FOE PLAYING. 

The ground should be fairly level, about 
one hundred yards long, and half as wide ; 
if the grounds are larger than this, the 
playground may be marked off the re- 
quired size by means of chalked lines. 
The lines running the length of the, field 
are called side lines, while the end lines 
are designated as goal lines. In the center 
of each of the latter a goal should be 
erected, which should consist of two up- 
right posts twelve feet apart, with a bar 
across them at a distance of seven feet 
from the ground. In front of each goal 
draw a line twelve feet long, running 
parallel to the goal line, and fifteen yards 
from it. The ends of these lines should be 
curved round to the goal lines by quarter 
circles, of which the goal posts should foim 
the centers; this is called the striking 
center. The ball should be white. A 
cricket ball painted white is best. 

Each player must be provided with a 
stick having a curved end. There are 
many opinions as to the best kind of a 
stick to use, but the one chosen should be 
neither too heavy nor too light, and be 
one that is easily wielded. The game of 
hockey depends more on wrist work than 
strength of stroke. 

The sides having been chosen, the play- 
ers move to the center of the field, tak- 
ing up their positions under their re- 
spective captains. The game is started by 
a player of each party striking the ground 
on his side of the ball, and his opponent's 
stick over the ball three times in succes- 
sion, after which the player can hit the 
ball and the game is in action; this by- 
play is called "bullying the ball." 

The object of the game, is to see which 
side can secure the greater number of 
goals. A goal is scored when the ball has 



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been driven between the goal posts under 
the bar. No goal can be scored unless the 
ball be hit from a point within the strik- 
ing circle ; a ball struck from without the 
striking circle or touching or glancing off 
the person or stick of the player of the 
defending side cannot score a goal. 

The ball may be caught but must im- 
mediately be placed upon the ground and 
struck by the player. The goal-keeper 
may kick the ball in defense of his own 
goal, unless he is farther out in the 
ground than the striking circle. 

When the ball goes over a side line a 
player on the opposite side to the one who 
has last touched it should immediately 
bowl it into play in a straight line, never 
in a forward direction. If the ball, by 
chance, be hit behind the goal line by the 
attacking party, it should be brought out 
to within twenty-five yards, at right angles 
w r ith the goal posts and then again "bul- 
lied." If, on the other hand, the ball be 
hit behind by any of the defending side, 
any player on the attacking side may claim 
a free hit from any point in a line with 
the goal-posts within a yard of the center. 

The captains usually agree, before the 
game opens as to how long it shall last. 



CURLING. 



fURLING- is a sport on the ice com- 
mon in Scotland, where it is played 
by all classes of people in the winter. 

Curling is played with flattish round 
stones, about 9 inches in diameter, pre- 
pared by stone-cutters, each stone weigh- 
ing from 30 to 45 pounds. Each of the 
players has a pair of these stones. The 
stones are provided with handles, to en- 
able the players to hurl them on the ice 
with the proper degree of force. As at 
bowds, the stones are hurled at an assigned 
point or mark. The game being as fol- 
lows: Sides are made up, usually con- 
sisting of four against four, with a 
director styled "Skip" for each; after 
which a certain length of ice, of from 30 
to 40 yards in length and 8 or 9 feet 



across, is chosen. This is called the rink. 
Certain marks are then made at each end 
of the rink consisting of several concentric 
rings, called broughs, and a center called 
tee. A certain number is game, usually 
31, and the keenness displayed by rival 
sides in competing for victory, is perhaps 
without parallel in any other sport. One 
on each side plays alternately. The chief 
object of the player is to hurl his stone 
along the ice, towards the tee, with proper 
strength and precision; and on the skill 
displayed by the players in placing their 
own stones in favorable positions, depends 
nearly all the interest of the game. At a 
certain distance from each of the tees, as 
score — the hog score — is drawn across the 
ice ; and any stone not driven beyond this 
mark, counts nothing, and is laid aside. 
In Scottish country places a dinner com- 
posed of beef and greens, the well-known 
Curler's fare, generally concludes the 
day's diversion. 



QUOITS. 



QUOIT is a flattish ring of iron, 
generally from eight and one-fourth 
to nine, and one-half inches in external 
diameter and between one and two inches 
in breadth. It is convex on the upper 
side, and slightly concave on the under, so 
that the outer edge curves downward, and 
is sharp enough to stick into the ground. 
The mode of playing is as follows: Two 
pins, called "hobs," are driven into the 
ground from 18 to 24 yards apart; and the 
players, who are divided into two parties, 
stand at one "hob," and in regular succes- 
sion throw their quoits (of which each 
player has two) as near to the other "hob" 
as they can. The points are counted as in 
bowls or in curling. To facilitate the 
sticking of the quoits at the point where 
they strike the ground, a "clay end" — that 
is, a flat circle of clay, about one or two 
inches in thickness, and one and one-half 
feet in radius — is placed around each 
"hob." This requires to be kept moist, and 
should have sawdust sprinkled over it. The 



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quoit when it is thrown is grasped with the 
right hand by one side, and pitched with 
an upward and forward jerk of the hand 
and arm, which gives it a whirling motion, 
and causes it to strike the ground with its 
edge. Professional players acquire much 
dexterity in this game, so much in fact, 
that they can frequently "ring" their 
quoit — that is, land it so that the quoit 
surrounds the, "hob." 

A similar game to quoits is played in 
rural districts, using horse shoes for 
quoits, the rules of the game are identical. 
This game is adapted to girls as well as 
boys, and is a favorite with picnicking 
surrounds the "hob." 



MARBLES. 



©NE Hole — Either a cap is placed 
upon the ground or a hole is dug, 
either will do equally well. Each player 
then takes ten marbles in his hand and 
tries to throw the, whole of them into the 
cap or hole. He reclaims all that go in, 
but leaves those that fall outside where 
they drop. The players throw in turn; 
any player who succeeds in throwing all 
of the ten into the hole, is entitled to all 
that are lying about. 

Spanners — This is a good game for two 
players only. The first player shoots a 
marble, and the second player tries to 
shoot his marble against or within a span 
of it. The players shoot alternately, but 
when one is successful he has another shot, 
and the other player pays him a marble. 

Picking the Plums — Two straight lines 
are drawn parallel to one another, from 
four to eight feet apart. Each player 
places two or three marbles, which are 
called plums, upon one of the lines, leav- 
ing about an inch between them. The 
players in turn, "knuckle, down" at the 
other line, and shoot at the "plums," those 
hit being kept by the successful shooter, 
but a second shot is not allowed until the 
next round. If a player fails to hit a 
"plum," he must add one to the row he 
shot at. 



CRICKET. 

HE requirements for carrying on a 
successful game of cricket are: 
First — A piece of level turf an acre or 
two in extent. Second — A sufficient num- 
ber of players to form two sides of eleven 
each, for double wicket, and a lesser 
number for single wicket. Third — For 
double wicket — the mode in which the 
game is generally played — two bats, two 
sets of wickets and bails and a ball. When 
a match is to be played between two 
"elevens" the first thing to be done is to 
pitch the wickets. Wickets consist of six 
wooden stumps, 27 inches high and are 
placed in the ground in sets of three, at a 
distance of 22 yards apart. On the top 
of each set of stumps are placed two small 
pieces of wood, called bails. The rival 
sides next toss for first innings, and the 
director of the side that is to go in first, 
places two of his men at the wickets or 
batteries; while a bowler, wicket-keeper, 
long stop, and fielders are placed in their 
several positions by the director of the 
opposite sides. When these arrangements 
are satisfactorily made, and the markers 
or scorers are at their posts, the umpires 
take their places, and the game begins. 
It may be well to mention here that the 
relative merits of rival sides are decided 
by the total number of runs made by each 
eleven batters during the two innings — 
the, side whose players score the most be- 
ing — as a matter of course — the winner. 
Each bowler's object is to direct his ball, 
by a swift movement of the arm, towards 
the opposite wickets, at which one of the 
batsmen stands, and, if possible, to strike 
down the stumps or knock off the, bails; 
while the object of the batsman, on the 
other hand, is to protect his wickets, from 
the bowler's attack, by either stopping the 
ball when it reaches him (blocking) or 
driving it into the field. And much of 
the beauty of the game depends upon the 
precision with which the bowler can direct 
ball after ball in a straight line for the 
wickets, and the corresponding skill (lis- 



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played by a good batsman in guarding 
them. 

We will now suppose the. two batsmen 
to be at their places, the bowler at his, ball 
in hand, and other players arranged in 
theirs. At a signal from the umpire, the 
bowler cries "play," and immediately 
after delivers his first ball. If the bats- 
man misses the ball, and it passes the 
wicket, the wicket-keeper stops it, and re- 
turns it to the bowler, who delivers another 
ball, and so on. When the batsman strikes 
the ball fieldwards, he immediately runs 
to the opposite wicket, passing his com- 
panion batsman, who crosses to his, and 
so on, till the ball has been returned by a 
fielder to the wicket-keeper or bowler's 
hand. Thus, if the stroke be a long one, 
the striker may have time to run perhaps 
three times between the wickets before the 
ball is thrown up, when three runs are ac- 
cordingly placed at his name by the 
scorers on their sheet. If, however, the 
bowler or wicket-keeper receives the ball 
and touches the wicket with it, before the 
advancing batsman has reached his ground 
or touches it with his bat the. striker is 
"out" and another man takes his place. 
Besides, if a ball from a stroke of the bat 
be caught by one of the opposing party 
before it reaches the ground; or, if in 
striking at a ball the striker hits down his 
wicket; or if he willfully prevents a ball 
from being caught, or strikes it twice ; or, 
if any part of his person stops a ball which 
would otherwise have hit his wicket, the 
striker is out. It frequently happens that 
two skillful batsmen guard their wickets 
so effectually, and score, so many runs, to 
one particular style of bowling, that a 
change either of the bowler, or style of 
bowling, is adopted by the other side. 
This change, say from swift to slow bowl- 
ing, or vice versa, generally produces the 
desired results and leads to the speedy re- 
tirement of the hitherto fortunate bats- 



man. 



The wicket-keeper's place is a very im- 
portant one, his principal duty being to 
stop with his hands every ball the batsman 



misses, it being allowable to make runa 
(byes) for balls that elude his grasp. Be- 
hind him stands the long stop, who is 
always on the outlook for balls that escape 
the. wicket-keeper. The fielders, who are 
posted in various parts of the grounds, 
ought to possess quickness of eye and foot, 
and skill in picking up with either hand a 
ball that is running, and instantly throw- 
ing it to the wickets. They must also be 
well skilled in catching balls. Much de- 
pends on their judgment of distance be- 
tween the point at which the ball is picked 
up, and the wickets, as misconception of 
this may lead to overthrowing the ball or 
throwing it short, while the batsmen are 
profiting by their error, and scoring 
additional runs. Fielders usually throw 
the ball to the wicket-keeper, who returns 
it slowly to the bowler; this saves the 
hands of the latter from becoming un- 
steadied by catching long balls. 

At the end of every four bowls, the 
bowler, wicket-keeper, long-stop and field- 
ers, change places, and thus every four 
balls are delivered from alternate wickets. 
Four balls constitute, an over, which it is 
the umpire's duty to reckon and announce. 

We have said that each side, is allowed 
two innings, but it sometimes happens that 
one side scores more runs in one. inning 
than the other does in two, in such case 
but one inning is neccessary for the suc- 
cessful side. 



HARE AND HOUNDS. 

ARE and Hounds is a good country 
game. Two boys, the best runners, 
and cutest dodgers of the party, represent 
the "Hares," and the remainder the 
"Hounds." The "Hares" carry with them 
bags of paper, cut into bits, which they 
scatter behind as they run, this is called 
the scent. By this the Hounds track and 
endeavor to capture them. The Hares, of 
course, try to mislead them by all sorts of 
doublings and twistings, or by leading 
them into a difficult country. The Hares 
are not allowed, by the rules, to make, 



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false starts at any part of the run, or to 
separate and lay two scents. They are 
considered caught if the scent gives out. 

The hounds will find a little discipline 
a wonderful help to them in baffling the 
tricks of the hares. A captain and a 
whipper-in should be chosen, the former to 
lead, the latter to look after the stragglers, 
if there be any. So long as the scent is 
strong the whole pack simply follow the, 
captain, keeping well together, but when 
he is not sure of his way, he blows the 
whistle which he carries, and the pack 
halt. The whipper-in stands at the last 
point at which the scent can be seen, hold- 
ing a handkerchief in his hand. The pack 
run round and examine the ground to find 
the lost scent. The moment they find it 
the captain blows his whistle and off they 
go again. 

The city boys have a substitute for this 
game known as a Chalk Chase" or "City 
Hare and Hound." Two hares are chosen, 
as in the country game, but instead of the 
paper scent, chalk arrows are used, on the 
ground, walks or walls, the arrow pointing 
in the direction they are running. If they 
wish to hide they must chalk a large 
capital H in the center of a circle, and hide 
within twenty paces of it. The hounds 
must cross out every arrow as they pass, 
or the hares are not fairly caught. 

In both games the Hares have the start 
by five or ten minutes, according to the 
length of the run. To begin with the runs 
will be short, but before the vacation 
closes the boys will make runs several 
miles in length. 



FOOTBALL. 

TpOOTBALL, as played the present 
|?j/§ day, is very different from the game 
of other years, since more science has been 
brought into the game, in place of 
strength, with the result that the game is 
no longer so fatal to life and limb. 

The ground should be the first consider- 
ation in a game of football; the size is 



usually one hundred and twenty yards 
long, by eighty yards broad. In the center 
of each of the extreme ends two upright 
posts, eight feet high and eight yards apart 
are erected, with a bar across the top of 
them. These are the goals, and the, game 
is to kick the ball through these goals. The 
ball should not be more than twenty-eight 
inches in circumference, and should be 
composed of inflated rubber bladder, en- 
cased in leather. 

Eleven on each side is the correct num- 
ber of players for a match; generally 
placed as follows, viz. : five forwards, two 
on the right wing, two on the left wing, 
and one, center; three half-backs; two 
backs and the goal-keeper. 

The forwards as their name denotes, 
are always in the front of the remainder 
of the team, and the success or failure of 
the game, in a great measure depends on 
them. 

Forwards must be very quick on their 
feet and very active. Their duty is to 
play well together, to be unselfish and to 
"pass" the ball from one to another when 
threatened by an opponent. To "pass" is 
to kick the ball into such a position that 
the player to whom it is sent shall be able 
to reach it without difficulty. The center 
forward should certainly be one of the best 
players in the team, as much depends on 
him. He should also be a sure kick, for, 
when the ball is approaching the oppo- 
nent's goal, it is usually passed to him ; and 
he makes the shot. A good forward should 
be able to pass the ball with both the in- 
side and outside of his feet. 

The half-backs require to be something 
more than sure kicks. To fill the position 
well these players should be quick enough 
to take advantage of any opportunity to 
assist their side. They should retreat or 
advance as they see the forwards doing, 
and they should always judge well 
before, kicking the ball, and if possible 
"pass" it on to the forward or half- 
back who is least pressed by his op- 
ponents. As a rule, the half-backs should 



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not kick very hard, nor very high, as, if 
they do there is more chance of the 
opposite side getting the ball. The full- 
backs should not only be clever kicks, cap- 
able of taking the ball in any position with 
either foot, but should also be the two 
strongest players in the team. They 
should never keep the ball, by any chance, 
a moment longer than is absolutely 
necessary, and when pressed should kick 
the ball well away to the forwards. In 
the ordinary course of the play the backs 
must watch the half-backs. If a half-back 
runs at an opponent and compels him to 
loose, the ball, it is the back's duty to run 
up and take it before any of the opponent's 
forwards can get it. The backs should 
never get near enough the goal-posts to in 
and way interfere with the goal-keeper's 
sight of the ball. 

The goal-keeper is, as may be supposed, 
the player who has to defend the goal, and 
is the only one who is allowed to touch the 
ball with his hands. This player should 
always be on the alert and a strong and 
sure kick. Practice alone will make a 
thoroughly reliable goal-keeper. 

To start the game, the ball is placed in 
the center of the ground and kicked off; 
each side have then to do their best to 
secure the ball and run it down to their 
opponent's goal and try and get it between 
the posts. If in the course of the play the 
ball goes over the side lines a player on the 
opposite side to the one that last kicked it 
should take the ball in his hands, and, 
placing his arm above, his head, should 
throw it again into play. 

Should the ball be played behind the 
goal line by one of the opposing side, it 
must be kicked off by one of the players 
behind whose goal line it went, within six 
yards of the goal post which is nearest to 
the point where the ball left the field of 
play ; but, if played behind anyone of the 
side whose goal line it is, a player of the 
opposite side, must kick it from any point 
within one yard of the nearest corner. 
This is called a corner kick. 



When a a goal" is scored, a kick-off takes 
place again from the center of the field ; 
the center forward on the losing side 
should kick the ball off. 

Care must be taken not to get "off side," 
for the penalty is a free kick to the op- 
ponents. A player cannot be "off side" 
unless he is in front of the. ball and there 
are less than three of the other side be- 
tween him and the opponent's goal. 

No player (with the exception of the 
goal-keeper in defence of his goal) is al- 
lowed to touch the ball with his hands. If 
it is done, "Hands" may be called, and the 
result is that a free kick is allowed to the 
side opposing the player who touched the 
ball with his hands. Any part of the arm 
below the elbow is considered "Hands." 
A free kick, is a kick at the ball in any 
direction the player pleases, when it is ly- 
ing on the ground, none of the kicker's 
opponents being allowed within six yards 
of the ball, unless they are standing on 
their own goal line. 

"Hacking" (which is kicking a player 
intentionally) and "tripping up" are also 
punishable by a free kick at the ball. 

"Heading" the ball is allowed; that is, 
if the ball is in the air it may be caught 
upon the head, and sent in any direction 
the player desires. 

The time the game shall last should be 
decided upon before commencing to play. 
At "half time" the opponents change sides. 



GOLF. 

/pS OLF is played on what, in Scotland, 
Xjjl is called Links, that is tracts of 
sandy soil covered with short grass. A 
series of small round holes, about four 
inches in diameter and several inches in 
depth, are cut in the turf, at a distance of 
from one to four or five hundred yards 
from each other, according to the nature 
of the ground, so as to form a circuit or 
round. The rival players are either two 
in number, which is the simplest arrange- 
ment, or four (two against two), in which 



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case the two partners strike the ball on 
their side alternately. The balls, weigh- 
ing about two ounces, are made of gutta- 
percha, and painted white so as to be 
readily seen. 

An ordinary golf-club consists of two 
parts spliced together — namely the shaft 
and head, the shaft is usually made of 
hickory, or lancewood ; the handle covered 
with leather; the head (heavily weighted 
with lead behind, and faced with horn) of 
well-seasoned apple-tree or beech. Every 
player has a set of clubs, differing in 
length and shape to suit the distance to be 
driven, and the position of the ball; for 
(except in striking off from a hole, when 
the ball may be teed — i. e. placed advan- 
tageously on a little heap of sand called a 
tee) it is a rule that the ball must be struck 
as it happens to lie. Some positions of the 
ball require a club with an iron head. The 
usual complement of clubs is six; but 
those who refine on the gradation of im- 
plements use as many as ten, which are. 
technically distinguished as the play-club, 
long-spoon, mid-spoon, short-spoon, baff- 
ing-spoon, driving-putter, putter, sand- 
iron, cleek, and miblick or track-iron; the 
last three have iron heads, the others are 
of wood. Every player is usually pro- 
vided with an attendant, called a "Caddy," 
who carries his clubs and "tees" his balls. 

The object of the game is, starting from 
the first hole, to drive the ball into the next 
hole with as few strokes as possible ; and 
so on around the course. The player (or 
pair of players) whose ball is holed with 
the fewest strokes has gained that hole; 
and the match is usually decided by the 
greatest number of holes gained in one or 
more rounds. Sometimes it is made to de- 
pend on the aggregate number of strokes 
taken to "hole" one or more rounds. 

To play the game of golf well requires 
long practice, and very few attain the 
groat excellency who have not played from 
their youth. But any one may learn to 
play tolerably, so as to take great pleasure 
in the game; and for all who have onco 



entered upon it, it possesses great fascina- 
tion. It has this advantage over most out- 
door games — it is suited to both old and 
young, and is an excellent mode of exer- 
cise, requiring as it does an amount of 
walking that forms an unusually good con- 
stitutional. 



GOLF-CROQUET. 



M OLF-CKOQUET is designed to 
\y| utilize the favorite strokes of drives 
in golf, but on a moderate sized lawn. The 
controlling features of the game are: Eirst 
— A good estimation of distance and force, 
required to cover that distance. Second — 
Accuracy in driving a ball over the grass 
or lifting it through the air to clear 
obstacles. 

The course on any lawn or field depends 
on the shape of the place, and is marked, 
first, by wickets or arches, similar to those 
used in croquet, and second, by numbered 
flags. ISTo account need be taken of the 
actual distances between these wickets, it 
being better to have them unsymmetrical 
or varying. A spot or tree must be chosen 
near the center of the. lawn and, in placing 
the wickets they must face this center, as 
all shots made through wickets are towards 
the center. 

The wickets should also be. placed so 
that the next one in sequence is in plain 
view of the last one passed ; that is, ]STo. 3 
must be seen from No. 2, and No. 4 from 
No. 3, etc. 

The game consists of as many wickets 
as you are able to emplace ; usually eight, 
but, as in golf, you may have less, and go 
over the course twice to a game. 

It may either be played to count only 
the. total number of strokes necessary to 
get through all the wickets, in which case, 
the player having made the least number 
of strokes and passed through all the 
wickets, is the winner ; or it may be played 
by wickets, in which event the wicket is 
given to the player who makes it in 
the least number of strokes and, where 
equal, no score for that wicket is taken by 



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either player. The first method of play is 
called "All Strokes;" the second "All 
Wickets." 

The balls used are of wood, 2f inches in 
diameter, light and tough, the object being 
to get force, and speed without much mo- 
mentum and to be sure that they will float. 
These balls do not last long, but are cheap 
and easily replaced, besides which, the 
mallet or club lasts much better. 

The. mallets designed for the game are 
different from the croquet mallets, having 
longer handles and a bevel so arranged on 
one end of the mallet that it will lift the 
ball clear of the turf, and drive it in the, 
direction of the prolongation of the axis 
of the mallet head. 

The advantages claimed for this game 
are: 

First — Any shaped lawn may be util- 
ized, and without much preparation ; a few 
yards near the wicket leveled off is all 
that is necessary. 

Second — Only one club is necessary and 
no assistants or "caddies." 

Third — The ball is cheap and not easily 
lost. 

Fourth — The outfit is portable and little 
science or time is necessary to lay out the 
course. 

Fifth — The wickets beings removable, 
there is no disfiguration of the lawn. 

Sixth — One gets quite the same exercise 
as in golf, and the accurate play of croquet 
is fairly well retained in the passage of 
the wickets. The same element of luck 
also comes in. 

To play the game: 

It may be played by two or four people, 
and those having started over the course, 
more may start without confusion. Pre- 
suming there are. two players, "A" and 
"B," "A" starts by placing the ball on the 
place chosen for the start, and carefully 
estimating the distance, endeavors to send 
his ball as close as possible to the first 
wicket; this is stroke 1 for "A." "B" 
then follows with his stroke 1. Now go- 
ing to where their balls are, the one far- 
thest from the wicket plays stroke 2, and if 



he is still the farthest away, he plays 
stroke 3, but if stroke 2 carries him closer 
than his opponent, the opponent plays his 
stroke 2. This is continued until both 
players get through the wicket, the number 
of strokes necessary being carefully kept 
by each. If a player can strike with his 
ball the other ball, his stroke is free, and 
not counted. The other ball can be re- 
placed or left, and he can either play from 
where the ball lies or take, it to any spot 
within the radius of a mallet's head from 
the ball struck. In no case can he assume 
to have passed through a wicket. In play- 
ing with four players, two play as part- 
ners, like in golf, using one. ball, and alter- 
nating strokes. 

Having passed through the first wicket, 
the others are made in like manner, count- 
ing all strokes made, first for each wicket 
and second for all wickets. The player 
having the least number of aggregate 
strokes, wins the game, if the game be 
"All Strokes," and the player winning the 
majority of wickets, wins the. game, if the 
game be "All Wickets." 



GOLF DON'TS. 



BON'T groan over a miss, like a boy 
who has been eating green apples. 
Better smile, even though you have, to 
force it; then try, try again. 

Don't, in a foursome, force the smile so 
heartily that your partner will take um- 
brage at it. Discriminate ! 

Don't proceed in serene ignorance as to 
the run of the match by holes. Nothing 
is more maddening than to have an oppo- 
nent query in a fatuous way, at quick 
intervals : "I say, how do we stand now ?" 

Don't play up to the putting green un- 
til those ahead have holed out and moved 
away; yea, even though they be of the 
pencil and paper friends who always 
stand over the cup to note down their 
strokes. 

Don't, too, yield to the inclination to 
play up into a o;roup who are calmly re- 
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"Fore," with a facetious inflection, for 
such emergencies. 

Don't play a certain stroke too often, 
because you happen to play it well. Play 
the club the lie suits and the, distance de- 
mands. 

Don't worry about other matches pass- 
ing when you are looking for a lost ball. 
To call out that you have almost found it 
may be construed as a mockery. 

Don't move or speak while your oppo- 
nent is preparing to putt. Have your 
caddie respect this injunction; also your 
friends in the encircling "gallery." 

Don't be churlish in aiding an opponent 
to find a lost ball, or object when outsiders 
assist in the quest. If his ball be found in 
your caddie boy's pocket, your previous 
zeal will help to prove innocence on your 
part. 

Don't be too profuse with compliments 
when an opponent is driving very well; 
nor will a sympathetic murmur banish the 
jarring feelings left by a wretched foozle. 
Silence is often good golf. 

Don't think backward as you take the 
stand. Let every drive make its own 
history. 

Don't wear red waiscoats on the brain, 
nor let plaids dominate the intellect. 

Don't, in the greenest of salad days, 
ignore the difference between match and 
medal play. Whoever wins the most holes 
gains a match, and the lowest score wins 
at medal play. Nothing is more jarring 
than to hear the young man with the new 
clubs tell how he has won a match by 132 
to 144 strokes; and 

Don't envy the winner. Your turn 
will come some day for compliments and 
the cup. 



LEAP FROG. 

^K^IIIS is the simplest but one of the 
fff best of over-back games. The 
players stand behind each other, forming 
a long line. The first player in the line 
makes a back, the second leaps over and 
makes a back a few feet furthur on, the 



first one still remaining down. The third 
player goes over the first one, then the 
second and in his turn makes a back a few 
feet beyond the second one, and this is con- 
tinued until all the line are down. Then 
the boy who made the first back starts 
again, and leaps each of the backs and 
makes another back beyond the end of the 
line, the next player follows suit, and thus 
a continually advancing line of backs are 
formed. The whole fun of this game lies 
in its being played with spirit. 



ARCHERY. 

RCHERY is one of the oldest sports 
in existence. It was formerly a 
method of warfare, but has long ceased to 
be indulged in, in any capacity save that 
of an amusement. 

In England archery is experiencing a 
great revival as a sport, being such a 
healthful out-door exercise. A recom- 
mendation to the sport is that it is adapted 
to ladies as well as gentlemen. In modern 
exercise of archery there are several 
varieties of contests between the antago- 
nistic parties ; but the usual variety is tar- 
get-shooting. In archery matches a num- 
ber of prizes are generally awarded, the 
principal being for the greatest number of 
arrows shot into any part of the target, 
and for the nearest approach to the exact 
center. The target has a gold spot in the 
center, a red ring around this, then a blue 
ring, then a black, and outside of all a 
white ring bordered with green. The 
merit of the shooting consists in a near 
approach to the exact center or "gold." 
Two targets are generally used in a match 
on opposite sides of the field, each by one 
party. The apparatus used at archery 
meetings is : First — The bow, varying in 
weight to the strength of the person who 
is to use it. Second — The arrow. Third 
— the quiver, a tin case for holding arrows 
not in immediate use. Fourth — The pouch. 
Fifth — The belt for holding the arrows 
actually in -use. The tassel of the belt 
serves to clean the arrows when dusty. 



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Sixth — the brace, buckled around the left 
arm, to protect it from being hurt by the 
string when shooting. Seventh — The 
shooting glove, formed to protect the three 
fingers used in drawing the string. Be- 
sides these articles and target, archers are 
sometimes provided with a large case 
called an "ascham," fitted up with 
necessary drawers and compartments for 
the reception of the bows, arrows, string 
and other accouterments. In archery 
competition, the total number and value, 
of each person's hits are registered on a 
scoring card. The shots are usually 
punctured on a card with a pin, preferable 
to pen and pencil marks. The value of the 
relative shots are as follows : Gold, 9 ; 
red, 7 ; blue, 5 ; black, 3 ; white, 1. 

That archery is an old game is proven, 
by the fact that early writers often re- 
ferred to the sport. Chaucer, in his 
Canterbury Tales, speaks thus of the 
archer: 

"Cladde in cote and hode of greene, 

A sheafe of peacock arwes brighte and 
kene, 

Under his belly he bare ful thriftilie. 

'Wei coude he dresse his takel yewmanlie, 
His arwes drouped not with fetheres lowe, 

And in his hand he bare a mighty bowe." 



HOOPS. 

TIE hoop race is a very good game be- 
cause of the exercise derived from 
it. Besides being a good runner, the win- 
ner in this game must be skillful in the use 
of the hoop. The players should be al- 
lowed start according to the size of their 
hoops, as, of course, a large hoop can be 
bowled faster than a small one. The one 
who first reaches the. goal agreed upon, 
wins the race. 

Turnpikes — This is considered the best 
of hoop games. The turnpike gates are 
two small pegs driven into the ground 
quite close together, or two bricks placed 
side by side a short distance apart. 

Half the players have hoops and half 



have charge of the gates. The players 
with hoops start off, trundling the hoop 
slowly or quickly as they please, and they 
must pass the. hoop through every gate. 
If the hoop touches either of the gate- 
posts, or goes outside them, the keeper 
takes the hoop, while the trundler takes 
his place as gatekeeper. 

Posting — In this game a large circular 
track should be marked out, with stations 
at equal distances, one for each player. 

The player at the first station trundles 
his hoop to the second station, the player 
at that station takes his to the third, and 
so on, the player at the last station takes 
the hoop on the first again. Anyone 
steadying the hoop with his hand is out, 
and his station must be abolished. The 
player keeping in, and trundling the hoop 
round to all the stations, wins the game. 
If the number of players is large, two or 
three hoops may be kept going at one 
time. 



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LA CROSSE. 

A CROSSE is a game of Indian 
^ origin. Every player is provided 
with a kind of large battledore. This con- 
sists of a long stick of light hickory, bent 
at the top like a bishop's crosier; strings 
of deerskin are stretched diagonally 
across the hooked portion in different 
directions, forming a network — not so 
tightly as in a regular battledore or racket- 
bat, nor so loosely as to form a bag. As 
the battledore, called a crosse, is 5 or 6 
feet long, there is a great leverage power 
in handling it. Only one ball is used; 
that is of India rubber, 8 or 9 inches in 
circumference. Posts or poles about 6 
feet high, with a flag at the top of each, 
complete the equipment. 

The players divide themselves into two 
parties, the reds and the blues ; their 
number, as well as the size of the play- 
field, is nearly optional ; but usually there 
are 12 players on each side. Red pre- 
dominates in the dress of one party, blue 
in the other, for facility in distinguishing 



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colleagues from opponents. To prepare 
for the game, a red goal is set up at one 
end of the field, consisting of two small 
red flags on posts, about 6 feet high and 
6 feet apart; a similar goal, but blue in 
color, is set up at the opposite end of the 
field. Now, the object of the game is for 
the blues to drive the ball through the. red 
goal, and the reds to drive it through the 
blue goal ; and each party, as a matter of 
course, attempts to frustrate the plans of 
the other. The ball is not thrown by the 
hand, but is hooked up from the grass by 
the bent end of the crosse or battledore; 
it is borne on the, net horizontally, while 
the player runs, and is dexterously thrown 
off the crosse when the exigencies of the 
game require such a maneuver. No play- 
er is allowed to wear spiked shoes ; but a 
good hold of the ground is obtained by 
wearing moccasins, which the Indians pre- 
fer, for the purpose to regular shoes. Each 
side has a captain who does not play and 
each goal has an umpire. 

In the arrangement of the men on each 
side, the goal-keeper defends the goal ; 
point is the first man out from the goal; 
cover-point is a little advance of point; 
center is in the center of the field; home 
is the player nearest to the opponent's 
goal ; while the fielders comprise the rest 
of the players. 

Beginning near the. center of the field, 
the players struggle to obtain mastery 
over the ball, and convey it to the oppo- 
nent's goal. When scooped up from the 
ground it is carried horizontally on the 
crosse, the player running towards one of 
the, goals, trying to elude the vigilance of 
his antagonists. If it seems prudent, he 
pitches the ball off the crosse towards a 
colleague, who may be in better position 
to convey it toward the goal. The ball is 
not touched by the hand, except under 
special and clearly defined circumstances. 
If the ball be accidentally driven through 
the red goal by one of the reds, the blues 
win the game, and vice versa. The play- 
ers must not strike, trip up, or grasp one 
another ; nor must any one lay hold of the 



crosse of another. One player strikes the 
ball off an opponent's crosse with his own 
crosse and not by any other means. Two 
players on the same side, may fling or 
carry the ball consecutively. 



TETHER BALL. 



'HE origin of games is a history of the 
development of one game from an- 
other. Thus, we have continuous records 
extending back to the old Roman period 
of games played with rackets. Out of the 
original crude forms have developed the 
higher, as seen in the highly differentiated 
forms of Pelota in Spain, and Court and 
Lawn Tennis in England. A new game, 
recently developed out of Lawn Tennis is 
Tether Ball. One of the difficulties in 
connection with practicing the strokes in 
Lawn Tennis is the obvious one of the 
recovering the balls that have been driven. 
Accordingly, it occurred to some bright 
individual that the ball might be tethered 
from an upright post. The ball upon be- 
ing struck almost inevitably tended to 
wind the string that held it around the 
pole. It was but a step beyond this to the 
production of a game — two individuals 
standing on opposite sides of a pole, each 
endeavoring to wind the ball around the 
pole in different directions. Thus we have 
the popular game of Tether Ball. The 
step formulating the rules defining 
heights, distances, and the like, is the re- 
maining one necessary. It is made in the 
following article. 



The great advantage of the game 



is 



the limited space demanded by the sport 
— a piece of ground twenty feet square is 
sufficient. There are no balls to chase, 
no expensive net or back-stop to be erected, 
no exasperating waits looking for the ball, 
no close decisions for the, umpire as to 
whether the ball was in or out; the game 
is rapid, interesting, inexpensive, limited 
in area demanded, can be played by wo- 
men as well as by men. These elements 
account for its popularity, and warrant a 



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belief that it will become still more pop- 
ular. 

THE POLE. 

1. The pole shall be an upright wooden 
pole, standing 10 feet out of the ground. 
It must be in a vertical position and firmly 
embedded in the earth so as not to vibrate. 
The pole shall be 7-J inches in circum- 
ference at the ground; it may taper to- 
wards its upper end. There shall be a 
black band 2 inches broad painted around 
the pole 6 feet above the ground. 

THE COURT. 

2. The court may be any smooth piece 
of ground, either grassed or not. It must 
be free from all obstructions. A circle 
shall be drawn about the pole on the 
ground having a 3-foot radius. A straight 
line 20 feet long shall bisect the circle, 
dividing the court into two sections. Six 
feet from the pole at right angles to and 
on each side of the line, of division, there 
shall be two plainly marked crosses. They 
are to be known as the service crosses. 

THE BALE. 

3. The ball shall be a championship 
tennis ball, having a strong linen tight - 
fitting cover. It shall be fastened to a 
string with a ring made of linen cord. 
~No metal shall be used on the ball. The 
ball shall be suspended from the top of 
the pole by a piece of heavy braided fish- 
line. The cord must allow the ball to 
hang 7-§ feet ; thus, when hanging at rest, 
it will be 2-J feet from the ground. 

RULES OF TETHER TENNIS. 
THE GAME. 

4. (1) The game shall be played by 
two opponents who shall toss rackets for 
court. The loser shall have service. 

(2) The game shall be started by the 
service. This shall be done from the cen- 
ter of each person's court at the point 
marked with a cross. 

(3) The ball may be struck in any man- 
ner with the racket in the direction be- 



fore agreed upon, the endeavor beinij; to 
wind the string upon the pole above the 
black line. The ball may be hit but once. 
It must then go into the opponent's court. 
A violation of this is a foul. 

(4) The winner of the toss shall deter- 
mine in which direction he will endeavor 
to wind the ball. His opponent must 
then endeavor to prevent his winding the 
ball in that direction, and must endeavor 
to wind it in the opposite direction. 

(5) Each player must keep wholly with- 
in his own court. This includes his arm 
and his racket. He must not step on or 
over the circle about the pole. A violation 
of this rule constitutes a foul. 

(6) If the string winds around the 
handle of the racket of one of the players 
this is a foul. In case the string winds 
about the pole below the black mark this 
counts a foul on the person in whose favor 
the string is wound. 

(7) Penalty for all fouls is a free hit 
by the opponent from the service cross. 

(8) If in taking the ball for service, 
it must be either wound or unwound on 
the. pole a half turn in order to reach the 
other side, it shall be unwound. 

(9) The game is won when the string 
has been completely wound up on the pole 
above the black lines. 

(10) The person winning the majority 
out of eleven games wins the set. 



BOWLS. 



IHIS is a favorite English game. It 
is played upon a smooth, flat piece of 
turf, from 40 to 60 feet square, sur- 
rounded by a trench or ditch about half a 
foot deep. The players arrange them- 
selves in sides, usually of four each, and 
each man is usually provided with two 
bowls. The bowls are made of lignum- 
vitae wood, of 6 or 8 inches in diameter, 
nearly round, and with a bias to one side. 
A smaller ball, perfectly spherical and 
white, is placed at one end of the bowling 
green; this is termed the jack, and the 
aim of the players, who stand at the other 



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end of th« green, is to send their ball that 
they may lie as near as possible to the 
jack. The side whose balls are nearest 
the jack, reckon one point for each bowl 
so placed. 7-14-21 or 31, make game, 
according to previous arrangement. Balls 
are biased or weighed on one side, that the 
player may reach the jack by a curved 
instead of a straight course, an expedient 
which the nature of the game renders par- 
ticularly desirable. Indeed, were it not 
for this, the game would lose half its 
charms. A bowl is played forehand, when 
it is so placed in the hand and delivered 
as to cause it to approach the jack with a 
curve from the right; and in order to 
attain the curve, the bowl must be held so 
that its bias side is on the left or inside. 
Backhand is the reverse. If a bowl goes 
into the ditch without touching the jack, 
it cannot count in the scoring of that end ; 
but if it strikes the jack, and then rolls 
into the ditch, it reckons as if on the green. 
When the jack is carried by a bowl into 
the ditch, it is usually lifted and placed 
on the green as near as possible to its 
position in the ditch. When the balls have 
so accumulated round the jack that it is 
impossible to approach it from either side, 
without running the risk of touching an 
adversary's bowl, the last player frequent- 
ly endeavors to run the jack, by playing 
straight at it with such force as to neutral- 
ize the bias, and, if fortunate, carry away 
the jack from the neighborhood of his 
opponent's bowls. A ship is appointed on 
each side, whose duty it is to direct each 
of his men. 



SQUASH BALL. 

SQUASH BALL is one of the more 
recent developments of the general 
Lawn Tennis family. It appears that 
Fives originated by playing a tennis ball 
with the hand against a wall on lines laid 
out for a tennis court. This game is still 
used extensively. Later on a wooden bat 
was used, and the game was called Bat 
Fives. Subsequent evolution was in the 



development of a racket like a tennis 
racket, excepting that it was lighter, 
weighing between nine and ten ounces. 
Eventually side-walls, back-wall and a 
ceiling were added, making an inclosed 
court. In this form it was called Backets. 
Squash Ball is played in a Backet court 
and is really a variation of that game. 
It is growing rapidly in popularity, as 
courts are being built in our leading ath- 
letic clubs and colleges. 

There are a number of different ways 
of playing and scoring squash. The style 
adopted in this book is one of the most 
practical and commonly used. 

DEFINITIONS. 

r Ace — A point won and scored. 

Court — The whole building in which 
the game is played. One may speak of the 
right court or of the left court. 

Service Line — A line painted on the 
front wall 8 feet from the floor. 

Tell Tale — A line painted on the front 
wall 2 feet 2 inches from the floor. 

Dividing Line — The line on the floor 
dividing the court into two equal spaces. 

Cross Court Line — A line across the 
court 23 feet from the back wall. 

Hand In — The player who has the right 
of serving the ball. 

Hand Out — The player who has to re- 
ceive the service. 

In Play — The ball is in play after being 
served until it has touched the floor twice, 
or the player, or the board, or has gone out 
of court. 

Out of Court — A ball is out of court 
when it touches the roof, posts, cushions, 
or is driven into the gallery. 

THE RULES OF SQUASH. 

1. The game to be 21 up. At 19 all 
the out players may set it to 5 ; and at 20 
all, to '3, provided this be done before 
another ball is struck. 

2. The going in first, whether odds be 
given or not, to be decided by spin; but 
one hand only is then to be taken. 

3. The ball to be served alternately 



court six a. 



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right and left, beginning whichever side 
the server pleases. 

4. In serving, the server must have one 
foot in the space marked off for that pur- 
pose. The out player to whom he serves 
may stand where he pleases, but his part- 
ner, and the server's partner must both 
stand behind the server till the ball is 
served. 

5. The ball must be served above, and 
not touching the line on the front wall, 
and it must strike the floor before it 
bounds, within and not touching the lines 
enclosing the court on the side opposite to 
that in which the server stands. 

6. A ball served below the line or to the 
wrong side is a fault, but it may be taken, 
and then the ace must be played out and 
counts. 

7. In serving, if the ball strikes any- 
where before, it reaches the front wall, or 
if it touch the roof or the gallery, it is a 
hand out. 

8. In serving, if a ball touch the server 
or his partner before it has bounded twice 
it is a hand out, whether it was properly 
served or not. 

9. Two consecutive faults put a hand 
out. 

10. It is a fault — 

(a) If the server is not in his proper 
place. 

(b) If the ball is not served over the 
line. 

(c) If it does not fall in the proper 
court. 

The out player may take, a fault if he 
pleases, but if he fails in putting the ball 
up, it counts against him. 

11. An out player may not take a ball 
served to his partner. 

12. The out players may change their 
courts once only in each game. 

13. If a player designedly stop a ball 
before the second bound, it counts against 
him. 

14. If a ball hit the striker's adversary 
above or on the knee, it is a let ; if below 
the knee, or if it hits the striker's partner 
or himself, it counts against the striker. 



15. Till a ball has been touched, or 
has bounded twice, the player or his part- 
ner may strike at it as often as they please. 

16. Every player should get out of the 
way as much as possible. If he cannot 
the marker is to decide if it is a let or 
not. 

17. After the service, a ball going out 
of the court, or hitting the roof or the 
gallery, in returning from the front wall, 
or if it hit the roof before reaching the 
front wall, counts against the striker. 

18. The marker's decision is final ; but 
if he has any doubts he should ask advice, 
and if he cannot decide positively, the ace 
is to be played over again. 



COURSING. 



/®10UKSING is a method of hunting 
\g/ hares by greyhounds, in which the 
dogs follow the game by sight, instead of 
by scent. This game is of very ancient 
date, having been practiced by the Greeks. 
Within the last few years, however, its 
popularity as a sport has greatly increased, 
and the breed of the greyhound is now 
studied with nearly tne same, care and 
zest as that of the race-horse. The method 
pursued by Coursing is briefly as follows : 
Meetings are held in open districts, well 
frequented by hares, where the greyhounds 
— technically called "dogs" — are entered 
by their owners for a variety of stakes, 
which are. to be competed for, Coursing 
in this respect, partaking of the. nature 
of a race between horses. The first thing 
done is to select a judge to decide upon 
the merits of the best dogs; second, a 
"slipper" is appointed to hold the dogs 
in leash, and start them at the hare ; and, 
third, a flag-steward is chosen, who re- 
mains near the judge and announces the, 
color of the victorious dog by means of a 
red or white flag, according as the com- 
petitors are arranged. The next thing 
done is to "beat" the field for a hare. 
When one is found, the judge usually al- 
lows it 80 or 100 yards "law" before he 
cries to the "slipper" to let the dogs "go." 



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Upon the word "go," the "slipper" liber- 
ates the animals by a spring attached to 
the "slips," i. e., the long cord held by 
the "slipper" and communicated with the 
leathern collars fixed around the necks of 
the dogs. The judge's duties now begin 
in earnest. He follows the dogs wherever 
they go, calculating carefully the number 
of "points" made by each — a "point" be- 
ing any meritorious achievement on the 
part of the dogs (as when the one outstrips 
the other, at any time, or turns the hare, 
i. e., causes it to "double"), and at last 
he adjudges the victory, not necessarily to 
the dog who has killed the hare, but to 
the one who has made the most points dur- 
ing the course, i. e., which has exhibited 
the finest qualities of speed, sagacity, en- 
durance, etc. 



LAWN TENNIS. 

flHIS is one of the. best of out-door 
games for boys and girls, ladies and 
gentlemen. A level lawn or field should 
be chosen, although sometimes asphalt 
and even cinder courts are used, but these 
are not so good as turf. 

The requisites for the game consist of, 
first, two posts, three and a half feet high ; 
second, a net, which is fastened to the 
posts, and which should be tarred to keep 
it from rotting ; third, a stay to put in the 
middle of the net to keep it the right 
height (three feet) ; fourth, a dozen india- 
rubber balls, not less than two and a half 
inches in diameter, and not more than two 
ounces in weight, covered with thin felt; 
fifth, a racket, which should not weigh 
more than fourteen and a quarter ounces. 

There are two kinds of lawn tennis — 
the single-handed game, played by two 
players, and the double-handed game, 
played by three or four players. 

For the single-handed game the court 
should be twenty-seven feet in width and 
seventy-eight feet in length, divided across 
the in id die by the net, the posts of which 
should stand three feet outside the court 
on each side; at each end of the court 



parallel with the net and at a distance of 
thirty-nine feet from it, there should be 
drawn the base lines, . the extremities of 
which should be connected by the side 
lines. Half way between the side lines, 
and parallel with them, should be drawn 
the half-court line, dividing the space on 
each side of the net into two equal parts, 
called the right and left courts, and on 
each side of the net, at a distance of twen- 
ty-one feet from it, and parallel with it, 
should be drawn the service lines. It is 
a great advantage if a strip of white cloth 
about two inches wide is stretched and 
fastened to the top of the net, as otherwise 
it is difficult to distinguish. 

The players stand on opposite sides of 
the net. The one who is to deliver the 
ball is called the server, and the other the 
striker-out. The server stands with one 
foot outside the base, line, and the other 
foot upon it, and delivers the ball from 
the right and left courts alternately, be- 
ginning from the right. The ball served 
must drop over the net and within the 
square nearest the net which is diagonally 
opposite to that from which the ball is 
served; that is to say, if the server were 
delivering the ball from the right-hand 
court, it would have to fall in the left- 
hand court of his opponent. If the ball 
be delivered into the wrong court, or if the 
ball drop in the net, or beyond the service 
line, it is counted a fault. The server is 
allowed another try ; if this is also a fault 
15 is scored to his opponent. If, however, 
the ball pitches in the proper court it 
should be immediately returned, by being- 
struck with the racket on the first bounce 
by the striker-out, and again returned in 
the same manner by his opponent; but 
after service the ball may be struck either 
before it touches the ground or on the first 
bounce, and this continues until one of the 
players fails to return it, or it is knocked 
outside the lines of the court, when 15 is 
scored by the opposite side to the one which 
missed the ball or knocked it out. If the 
ball served just touches the net it is called 
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wise good the service counts for nothing, 
and the player may serve again. 

Either player loses a stroke if the ball 
in play touch him, or anything that he 
wears or carries, except his racket; or if 
he touch or strike the ball in play with 
his racket more than once consecutively; 
or if he touch the net, or any of its sup- 
ports, while, the ball is in play; or if he 
touch the ball before it has passed the net. 
On a player winning his first stroke the 
score is called 15, on winning the second 
stroke 30, on winning the third stroke 40, 
and the fourth stroke "game." If both 
players have, won three strokes the score 
is called "deuce;" the player that next 
scores gets what is termed "advantage," 
and if he scores again he wins the game. 
If, however, his opponent scores, then they 
go back to deuce again, and so on until 
either player wins the two strokes imme- 
diately following the score of deuce, when 
the game is scored for that player. The 
player who first wins six games wins a set. 
At the end of every set sides are changed. 

These rules also apply to three and four- 
handed games. The court, however, is 
arranged differently. It should be thirty- 
six feet wide. Within the side lines, four 
and a half feet from them and parallel 
with them, are drawn the service lines, in 
the form of a square. In other respects 
the court is like to that described for the 
single-handed game. 



TALLY-HO COACHING PARTIES. 

'HESE Tally-ho Coaching Parties are 
considered a delightful pastime by 
all who indulge in same. They give much 
latitude for pretty costumes ; there are few 
brighter pictures than that of a tally-ho 
coach as it dashes along the city boulevards 
and over country roads and lanes to the 
music of merry voices and tooting horns. 
This long drive is certain to sharpen all 
appetites and make welcome the picnic 
lunch, eaten in country wood. All sorts 
of picnic dainties will be found available 
for such a luncheon. 



ROOF PARTIES. 

|[<|j§ OOF parties are the very latest di- 
P\ version which the girl who stays in 
town enjoys. They are. very jolly enter- 
tainments. The outer edge of the roof is 
usually surrounded by a narrow "fence." 
In the corners are placed potted plants 
and camp-chairs. The center of the roof is 
reserved for games and dancing, if desired. 
The refreshments are the simplest possible 
and are served from small tables, or simply 
"handed round." Dwellers in big apart- 
ment houses may also give these "up in the, 
air" entertainments. These festivals have 
become very popular from the fact of their 
being both informal and novel. 

Amateur theatricals often take place on 
these tiny "roof gardens." 

If the roof be spacious and walled in by 
a high parapet so much the better, for of 
course there is always some danger of fall- 
ing from so high an eminence. 



BASE-BALL. 



HE American national field game 
derives its origin from the old Eng- 
lish school-boy game of "Rounders." Kew 
York is the birthplace of this game as it 
is now played. 

The Game. — A space of ground is 
marked off on a level, turfy field, being in 
the farm of a diamond-square, with equal 
sides thirty yards each, bases being at each 
of the four corners. One of these bases is 
called the home plate and the others, be- 
ginning on the. right, are numbered re- 
spectively first, second and third. Within 
the diamond, in front of the home plate 
and fifty feet distant therefrom, is the 
pitcher's square or "box." The contestants 
in a match consist of nine players on each 
side, the. attacking force taking up the nine 
positions at the bat, and the defense the 
position in the field, viz., the pitcher 
stands near the center of the diamond, the 
catcher in front of him and behind the 
batsman ; near each base is a baseman ; 
between second and third bases is stationed 



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the shortstop, and at a considerable dis- 
tance back from the. first, second and third 
bases are three men, called respectively the 
right, center and left fielders. 

The home team always has the choice of 
innings, and the fielding side having taken 
position the pitcher delivers the ball to the 
batsman, who endeavors to hit it and send 
it out of reach of the field men, so that 
he can reach first base before the opposing 
force can "field" the ball to the baseman 
standing there. If the batsman fails to 
accomplish this he is called "out." If he 
reaches the base before the ball he next 
tries to reach second, third and the home 
plate, others of his side taking the bat in 
turn and attempting to hit the ball in such 
manner as to enable him to reach the bases. 
If he succeeds in making the bases before 
three of his side are put out he makes a 
run. 

The ball may be pitched, jerked or 
thrown to the bat, but in order to oblige 
the batsman to strike at it, must pass over 
the home base and between the batsman's 
knee and shoulder ; every ball so delivered 
must be struck at, and a refusal to do this 
is counted a strike. The batsman is en- 
titled to his base on four "called" bats, 
i. e., balls failing to pass over the home 
plate and between the batsman's knee and 
shoulder; also when hit by a pitched ball 
and in case of illegal delivery of ball to the 
bat. If three unsuccessful attempts to hit 
the ball are made or three strikes are called 
the batsman must run to first base and 
reach same before the ball is pitched, or 
he, is called out. His opponents may put 
him out by catching batted balls before 
they strike the ground and by touching 
him with the ball between bases. 

After three men have been put out on a 
side, the, inning for that side is ended, and 
the field side takes its turn at the bat. This 
is continued until nine innings have been 
played, when the side scoring the greater 
number of runs wins the, game. In cases 
of a tie at the end of the ninth inning, 
rcfore innings are played until one side 
scores more runs than the other. 



CROQUET. 

fEOQUET is an open-air game, in 
which two or more players endeavor 
to drive wooden balls, by means of long- 
handled mallets, through a series of arches 
set in the ground according to some pat- 
tern. 

Various plans for the placing of the 
hoops have been adopted by croquet play- 
ers, but the general principles of the game 
are the same in all cases, whatever the 
shape of the ground or the disposition of 
the arches. The following is the original 
plan and the easiest way of setting the 
hoops: 

To set out the hoops drive in the start- 
ing peg (which is also the winning peg) 
and set the first hoop in a straight line 
from it at a distance of twelve feet. Set the 
second hoop ten feet farther on; then 
draw a diagonal line of twenty feet and set 
up the third hoop, with the fourth hoop ten 
feet distant in a straight line, and the fifth 
hoop ten feet farther. Then draw another 
diagonal of twenty feet, and set up the 
sixth hoop directly opposite the second; 
carry the seventh hoop ten feet back in a 
straight line, and fix the turning-peg 
twelve feet back to correspond with the 
starting peg. Afterward complete the 
other side in exactly the same manner. 
Thus the order of play will be from the 
starting peg to hoop 1, and so on to the 
turning peg, and thence back to the win- 
ning peg. 

TEEMS USED IN THE GAME. 

Roquet. — The word is used to denote 
that when both balls are "in play." The 
striker's ball is caused by a blow of the 
mallet to hit another which it has not be- 
fore hit in the same turn since making a 
point. The making of the roquet gives the 
striker the privilege of croqueting the ball 
struck. A second roquet, without a point 
in the interval does not count, but it may 
be made for the purpose of driving away 
an opponent's ball, cannoning, etc., the. 
striker's turn ending there, unless by the 
same stroke he makes a point, or roquets 



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another ball, which he has not previously 
struck during the round, and since making 
a point. 

Croquet. — When one ball has roqueted 
another the striker's ball is placed in con- 
tact with the one roqueted, the striker 
then hitting his own ball with the mallet. 
The non-striker's ball, when moved by a 
croquet, is called the croqueted ball. The 
striker is not allowed to put his foot upon 
the ball, as was formerly done in what was 
known as tight croquet. 

A Loose Croquet. — This is made in 
three, ways: First, by the striker placing 
his ball close to the one he has roqueted, 
and striking the former, in a line passing 
through the axis of each, by which plan 
the striker's ball remains almost stationary 
w T hile the other flies forward ; secondly, by 
the player striking the ball at any angle 
so as to drive the balls in opposite direc- 
tions ; and, lastly, by touching the roqueted 
ball slightly, with as little movement of the 
player's ball as need be. 

A Rolling Croquet is made by placing 
the two balls in juxtaposition as before, 
and the player striking his own ball in 
such a way as to make it follow after the 
ball struck. 

Th e Side Stroke is made by raising the 
mallet to the shoulder and hitting your 
ball full in the center. 

The Straight Stroke is made, with the 
mallet held straight to the axis of the ball, 
perpendicularly in front of the body. 

Spooning is simply pushing the ball, 
which is considered unfair. The test of 
the spoon is that it makes no noise. 

In Flay. — A ball is said to be "in play" 
as soon as it has run the first hoop; and 
it remains "in play" until it makes a 
roquet. 

In Hand. — After making a roquet, a 
ball is said to be "in hand," and cannot 
again score until it has made a croquet, 
after which it is again "in play;" but 
unless it makes a point it continues "in 
hand" to the ball or balls it has croqueted 
for the remainder of the turn. When it 



has made, another point it is "in play" 
again to all the balls, as at the beginning 
of its turn. 

Dead Ball. — The ball is said to be 
"dead" that has run all the hoops and 
struck the winning peg. 



BALLOON TENNIS. 

ITHEB, two or four players are 
2jk needed in this game. A string is 
stretched across the law T n, which supplies 
the place of the "net" in ordinary tennis. 
An air-ball should be provided. The 
players arrange themselves on either side 
of the string, one side against the other. 
The hand is used in batting the ball from 
one side to the other, each side attempting 
to keep the ball from alighting on the 
ground on their side of the. string, at the 
same time each trying to bat it in such 
manner that it will strike the ground on 
the side of the opponent. 

Every time the ball touches the ground 
it counts five for the opponent. The game 
played is usually fifty counts. 



"HERE GOES UP FOE MONDAY." 

fHIS game requires seven players, 
each being given a name of one of the 
days of the week. The players stand fac- 
ing a high wall or building. "Sunday" 
takes a rubber ball, and, throwing it high 
against the w r all, calls out, "Here goes up 

for ," any day of the week being 

mentioned. The player whose name has 
been called must immediately run forward 
and catch the ball before it reaches tho 
ground, the other players running away. 
If the ball is caught it is thrown against 
the wall by the catcher, and he in his turn 
calls a name. When the player fails to 
catch the ball he misses a point, or an 
u Qgg, jy as it is called. He must then pick 
up the ball and throw it at another player ; 
if one is hit, that player also loses an 
"egg," and has in his turn to throw the ball 
against the wall. 

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ball at the other player fails to hit same 
he must himself throw the ball against the 
wall. The loss of "eggs" puts a player 
"out." The last one having an "egg" left 



wins the game. 



CAT AND EAT. 

I HIS is a favorite among the children. 
All join hands and form a ring. 
Two persons having previously been 
chosen, one for cat, the other for the rat. 
The rat is placed on the inside of the 
ring, the cat on the outside. The cat must 
then break through the circle and catch 
the rat. The cat is not allowed to pass 
under the clasped hands — he must break 
through them. On the other hand, every- 
thing possible is done to aid the rat. 
Hands are unclasped for him to pass in or 
out, and he is allowed to pass under the 
clasped hands. Immediately the cat 
passes inside the ring, the rat must make 
haste to get out, thus escaping the cap- 
ture. 

When the cat finally succeeds in cap- 
turing the rat, each must choose a suc- 
cessor to fill the places vacated by them. 



SUMMER OUT OF DOORS. 

PIAZZA POSSIBILITIES. 

fHE cheap cotton Japanese rugs, even 
those that have done first service 
within doors, are appropriate for a floor- 
covering. Indeed, a strip of matting is 
preferred by some women to the cotton 
rugs. The latter match well the light oak 
rockers known as piazza chairs, and need 
not be taken in at night; for even if a 
shower give them a good wetting, there is 
no harm done. A couch of cane is less 
expensive than a rattan couch, and is al- 
most as pretty. Over this rugs may be 
thrown, and pillows piled up at the back. 
A kitchen-table, the legs of which have 
been shortened and over the top of which 
a denim tablecover has been thrown, is 
convenient for books and magazines. The 



Japanese screens or shades that hang at 
the front and the sides of the piazzas are 
inexpensive, and are desirable for the sake 
of privacy. These are easily lowered and 
raised, and by many are preferred to the 
striped awning. The latter may be made 
easily at home, if the sewing machine will 
do such stiff sewing as is required in the 
seaming and the binding. 

An awning that will cost fifteen dollars 
made to order may be made at home for 
one-third of the cost. Any one with ordi- 
nary understanding of measurements can 
cut a pattern for it, and the awning when 
completed may be hung on hooks by means 
of brass rings, and afterward adjusted to 
the iron rods composing the framework. 
Then again, a shade of awning-cloth may 
be hung like a curtain at the front or 
sunny side of the piazza, and dropped or 
lifted the same as a boat sail, and with 
equal readiness. These shades have quite 
taken the place of the shield of honey- 
suckle, woodbine, and other ivies that once 
were so popular as piazza decorations. 
The reason for this is obvious, as the 
foliage draws mosquitoes and interferes 
with the personal comfort of the piazza- 
dweller. For that very reason vines have 
regularly gone out of fashion. They are 
not there to draw the musical, murderous 
mosquito that, in turn, drives the house- 
owner away from home. 

A hammock which is the usual feature 
of piazza-comfort is often more pleasing to 
look at than to lie in, and for that reason 
is not so popular as it once was. If there 
is a secluded corner in which to suspend it, 
all well and good ; but it no longer monop- 
olizes space that can be more satisfactorily 
filled. The large willow steamer chair, 
which is really a couch, is far more com- 
fortable. It may be filled with pillows at 
the reclining back or not. It is a com- 
fortable summer chair, and far ahead of a 
hammock. For the hammock, the. pillows 
should be linen-covered, or gingham-cov- 
ered, so that the slips can be washed every 
week or two, for they are bound to catch 
i the dust. 



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The little cheap unfinished wooden-top 
tables are suitable for the piazza, and if 
the space will admit, there may be two 
or three of them. The cover of cretonne 
or linen should be, tacked on, and a six- 
inch ruffle tacked around the edge with 
brass-headed nails. Twice renewing this 
cover during the summer will keep the 
table dainty and decorative. As for the 
green decorations of the piazza, a few 
bright majolica jars containing pots of 
ferns, a rubber plant, or palms will fill 
corners, or even be more conspicuous, if 
desired. If the jars containing the plants 
are stood on small tabourets, the effect is 
charming. The newest hammock is a 
swinging bench with high back and end- 
pieces. When this is painted a bright red, 
suspended with great heavy red ropes with 
tassels, and then filled with pillows covered 
with bright contrasting colors, the effect 
is most attractive. This seat, which by 
<ne way is deep enough to be most com- 
fortable, is rather an expensive affair ; but 
there is no reason why the home carpenter 
cannot manufacture the same thing at a 
nominal cost. It is, however, one of the 
newest things for piazza-furnishing. 

The illustrations presented here are de- 
signs by an artistic furniture dealer in 
New York, who is noted for the origi- 
nality of his work. The furniture is heavy 
and substantial, and is warranted to last a 
life-time. It is really the modernizing of 
the antique, and is a becoming tribute to 
the skill of the earliest furniture-maker. 

A very attractive piece consists of a 
cross between a steamer chair and a ham- 
mock. The canvas is swung in an enor- 
mous wooden framework, and when the 
hammock chair is filled with pillows, it is 
to be recommended for a siesta in a shady 
secluded corner of the piazza. 

Then there is the table that is converted 
into a chair — a King Arthur's Eound 
Table, it is called — and nothing can be 
more attractive for the piazza than this 
piece of furniture. Indeed, it is equally 
well suited for the summer home within 
doors at all seasons. When the top of the 



table is tipped back, converting the table 
into a chair, the great round plaque back 
is a tremendously artistic affair. 

The woman who knows how best to en- 
joy the summer at home has dessert served 
out on the piazza after dinner. The little 
tables are spread with tray-cloths, and the 
coffee and fruit and an ice are waiting 
there when the family adjourns from the 
dinner-table. Then, also, the gentlemen 
can enjoy their after-dinner cigars. Such 
little touches as these, do so much to lend 
spice to, and to dispel monotony from, 
home living. It all rests with the house- 
wife to do this. It is not a question of 
expense. Many people hesitate to depart 
from the. conventional custom sufficiently 
to enjoy the many comforts that are read- 
ily within their reach. 

The piazza party is now a feature of 
summer entertaining, and takes the place 
of the lawn party in a measure. Guests 
meet on the piazza of the hostess, and 
without entering the house at all on warm 
summer afternoons partake of refresh- 
ments, embroider, and while away a few 
delightful, informal hours. A display of 
flowers in the vases on the various tables 
is sufficient decoration. Lemonade and 
sherbet, with cake, are appropriate refresh- 
ments for an affair of this kind. 



A CAMP PARTY. 

§AMPI^G parties are very popular in 
most rural districts. These people 
who in the spring and early summer sea- 
son are too busy to take recreation of any 
kind, after the grain is harvested and the 
corn "laid by," hie them away to the near- 
est riverside for a week's enjoyment in the 
camp. 

The party is usually a large one, made 
up of a number of families in the same 
neighborhood. A large tent is provided 
for sleeping purposes and rainy weather, 
but the remainder of the time is spent in 
the open air — the men at hunting and 
fishing, the women in reading and light 
sewing. 



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A GYPSY PICNIC. 



The greater portion of the, food is pre- 
pared previous to the setting out, and this 
is eaten cold, save for the coffee and fresh 
game and fish which are prepared on an 
open camp-fire. Much wholesome pleasure 
and rest are derived from these outings. 



A HAMMOCK PICNIC. 

IHE Hammock Picnic was a clever 
idea fostered in the mind of a village 
maiden. In the outskirts of said village 
was a shady grove dignified by the, name 
of "park ;" here all village festivities were 
held, the same being free, to any or all who 
might wish "to pitch a tent therein." 

The sewing society, of which the maiden 
was an enthusiastic member, had been 
meeting, once, a week, for months prepar- 
ing articles for a "fancy fair" which was 
to take place in the autumn. The church 
parlor was the usual place of meeting, and 
was voted "hot and stuffy" by all. Thus 
it was in casting about for a plan of relief 
that the "hammock picnic" presented itself 
to the mind of the, maiden. 

She suggested the plan at the next meet- 
ing of the society and it was immediately 
voted "a capital idea." 

It was arranged that the next meeting 
should be held in the "park," each mem- 
ber to carry with her a "hammock," her 
sewing, and luncheon for one. This 
luncheon was to be a "scrap lunch," that 
is, composed of any bits of provender that 
happened to be at hand, in fact was to be 
just such a luncheon as in the long ago 
they carried to the "little red school-house 
on the hill." 

The day set for the meeting proved to 
be ideal. The hammocks soon swung in 
the breeze, and busy tongues and fingers 
worked in unison. When the luncheon 
hour arrived each little box and package 
was brought forth and they traded dinner 
in the old-school-time way, which brought 
back to memory the joyful days of "long 
ago." When the heat of the day became 
too oppressive for sewing, the aforesaid 
maiden brought forth several new maga- 



zines and a pleasant hour was passed in 
reading aloud. 

The results of this meeting were two- 
fold, viz., more than the ordinary amount 
of work was accomplished and complete 
rest for mind and body. 



A GYPSY PICNIC. 

RECENT magazine gave the follow- 
ing description of a Gypsy Picnic 
that occurred in the country not far from 
New York City: "A lovely spot in the 
woods Was chosen, with sloping fields and 
pretty running streams and brooks near 
by. From eighty to one hundred people 
were invited. The invitations were 
painted in large red letters on natural 
bark as it was stripped from the trees in 
irregular length and width. They were 
written in the 'Romany pattern' and the 
patois of many of the old gypsy tribes. 
They were sent out a week before the affair 
was to come off, and each guest was asked 
to bring a tin plate, mug, spoon, knife and 
fork, and paper napkins. To simplify 
matters these were all sent to one house, 
where they were loaded on a cart and 
driven to the picnic grounds with the rest 
of the paraphernalia, food, etc. 

One of the particular features of this 
picnic was to have all the food stolen be- 
forehand, true to gypsy life. This was 
managed in the following manner: The 
guests, having first arranged among them- 
selves what they should bring, in many 
cases put the articles of food out on the 
piazzas the night preceding the picnic, 
with the understanding that they were to 
be taken away by some, of the guests. Then 
in other cases- the vegetable gardens were 
invaded after dark, as were raids also made 
on poultry-yards, etc. 

"The guests arrived in tribes, all 
dressed in typical gypsy costumes. There 
were a number of children in the party 
who were all barefooted and dressed in 
picturesque, gypsy costumes, made of the 
simplest materials. The predominating 
idea was to make the scene as effective a§ 



THE FLORAL PORCH PARTY. 



235 



possible — there was no thought of expen- 
sive dressing, but rather to combine as 
many brilliant colors as possible in every 
form. A great many Navajo blankets 
were used, as were striped shawls and 
afghans, with no end of bright red and 
yellow cotton fabrics. 

"As soon as the tribes had disbanded 
they began to prepare their food. A large 
maple sugar caldron had been placed upon 
a pile of rocks, in the center of which a 
hot fire was burning. The Queen of the 
Gypsies (previously chosen) approached 
the boiling pot, and after she had pro- 
nounced a sort of blessing upon the food 
and droned out an old gypsy incantation, 
the members of the tribes gathered about 
her and cast offerings of vegetables, fruit, 
etc., at her feet. She then proceeded to 
dip out the marvelous stew which had been 
simmering since early morning. In the 
pot were turkeys, chickens, ducks, geese, 
pork, onions, carrots, potatoes, turnips, 
celery, parsley, bay-leaves, cloves, allspice, 
green peppers, peppercorns, and a dash of 
vinegar. Besides this wonderful concoc- 
tion there were soda biscuits, crackers, 
doughnuts, apples and refreshing drinks. 

"The lunch was eaten gypsy fashion, 
sitting on grass, rocks and stumps. For- 
tunes were told, and the guests amused 
themselves with palmistry, tricks, and re- 
citing weird gypsy tales." 



BLACK MAN. 



'WO bases are provided directly op- 
posite one another with an interven- 
ing space of several yards between. One 
person is chosen to be the catcher or 
"black man ;" he takes one base, while the 
remaining players take the other. When 
all have reached the base the "catcher" 
stands at his base and calls, "What will 
you do when the Black Man comes V ' The 
answer rings out, "Run right through, like 
we ought to do." This the players attempt 
to do, the "black man" catching as many 
as possible, who in turn become "assistant 
black men" and aid in the catching of their 



companions. The first person caught be- 
comes the black man for the next game. 



THE FLORAL PORCH PARTY. 

A DAINTY HOT WEATHER GAME THAT TESTS 
BOTANICAL SKILL. 

BITKING the hot days, when active 
games are often out of the question, 
the hostess is frequently called upon for an 
enjoyable yet quiet way of entertaining 
friends. There is a fresh and attractive 
idea called bouquet building, which is ad- 
mirable for porch parties and similar 
affairs. It can be played by any number 
of persons, by either sex and any age. The 
necessaries for it are a dozen or more 
sheets of tissue paper, including all the 
primal colors and popular tints; needles, 
thread, and a couple of pairs of scissors. 

Each player is told to choose, mentally, 
a flower — any well-known blossom — with- 
out mentioning the name of it to the com- 
pany. He is then to endeavor to reproduce 
the bloom in tissue paper. Every player, 
whether he wishes or not, must make a 
flower, but his task can be simple or com- 
plicated, according to the choice he makes. 

Twenty minutes are allowed for cutting, 
crumpling, adjusting and sewing the blos- 
soms. At the end of twenty minutes these 
are collected by the hostess, who attaches 
to each a little tag having a number writ- 
ten upon it. 

The floral collection thus ticketed is ar- 
ranged in rows upon a table. Each flower- 
maker then receives pencil and paper, with 
a request that he write down the names of 
all the flowers represented, and if possible 
a poetical quotation regarding them. The 
hostess secures from each botanist the name 
of the flower intended and keeps these for 
reference. 

Another twenty minutes is allowed for 
this work. The player who is successful 
in naming all or most of the blooms is 
announced first prize winner. A second 
prize is in waiting for the girl or man who 
gave most quotations correctly. 

A vote is then taken to decide which 



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A TROLLEY PARTY. 



flower of all the bunch is cleverest in de- 
sign and most accurately resembles nature. 
If no little trinkets in floral pattern are 
at hand to serve as prizes the flowers made 
by the different competitors can be divided 
into three large bunches, tied with appro- 
priate ribbons and presented as trophies 
and souvenirs of the occasion. But if some 
little outlay can be made on the first, 
second and third prizes an amusing booby 
can be evoked by gathering all blossoms 
into one great bouquet. These are pre- 
sented to the booby winner in overwhelm- 
ing magnificence. — Record-Herald. 



PIGEON. 



IGEON" is a yery pleasing out-door 
game. The company should sit in a 
circle. The leader of the game whispers 
to each one of the company the name of a 
bird. He then announces that he will call 
the names of two birds together and that 
these two birds must change places. When, 
however, he calls "pigeon," all other birds 
must try to catch the pigeon, a prize to be 
given the successful one, and the pigeon 
to receive the prize if no one catches it. 

The amusing part of this game is that 
all members of the party but five or six 
have been given the name of "pigeon." To 
blind the players, the leader calls the names 
of a couple of birds; these change places 
as their names are. called. Then the leader 
calls "pigeon," and all the "pigeons" make 
frantic efforts to escape imaginary pur- 
suers, imagining that every player is chas- 
ing them. What is their amazement when 
they finally pause to look for said pursuer, 
to see innumerable "pigeons" fleeing in 
every direction. The situation then dawns 
upon them and they realize that they have 
been a "trapped pigeon." 



WIDOW. 

IMS is a very good game for an out- 
door gathering. The players arrange 
themselves in two long rows, extending 
away from each other. These rows are 



formed of couples, like files of soldiers 
marching by twos. The front couples are 
separated from each other by a few feet. 

In front of each row stand the widows, 
facing each other, and of course with their 
backs to their rows. When the widows 
are ready, they cry, "Last couple out," and 
at this signal the rear couples of each row 
must run forward on each side. 

When the two from her own row have 
got opposite the widow, then, and not till 
then, the widow must pursue one of them. 
She must make her choice which to pursue 
very rapidly, and is not permitted to turn 
her head to look behind, or to run until 
the last couple have come to a level with 
her. In her haste she is as likely to pursue 
the swiftest as the slowest. 

The widow must catch the one she pur- 
sues before the player reaches the rear of 
the opposite column. Failing to do this, 
the widow must return to her place. Suc- 
ceeding, the player who is caught must 
become "widow." 

In either case two players take their 
positions immediately behind the widow 
on the side from which they started. While 
this is going on from one column, the 
same process is carried on by players of 
the opposite column, the two sides playing 
independently. 



A TROLLEY PARTY. 

©NE of the most pleasant city "out- 
ings" is the trolley party. Arrange- 
ments are made with the street-car com- 
panies whereby the party have the exclus- 
ive use of the car or cars as the case may 
be; the party meet promptly at a given 
point, where they board the car and are 
away on their pleasant journey. The cars 
are usually decorated in flags and bunt- 
ing, and a plentiful supply of whistles, tin 
horns, etc., in the hands of the picnickers 
makes the necessary din. 

The party may be a moonlight affair 
or may be a regular old-time picnic, the 
car carrying them to some "woody" spot 
beyond the city limits and there, leaving 



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237 



them with the understanding that it is to 
return at a given hour in the evening. 



KING WILLIAM. 

NE of the greatest favorites of all 
out-door games, with children, is this 
"King William." It is played in every 
school, lane or street. The children form 
a circle, with one of their number in center 
of same. The remainder then circle around 
singing: 

"King William was King James' son — 
He of a royal race was one, 
Upon his breast he wore a star, 
And in his mouth a big cigar ; 
Go choose your east, go choose your west, 
Choose the one that you love best, 
Down on this carpet you must kneel 
As sure as the. grass grows in the field ; 
Your love for her you must confess, 
Xow kiss this one that you love best." 

At the words "Choose the one that you 
love best" the child in the center advances 
and touches the. sleeve of some child in the 
ring; this one immediately leaves her 
companions, and passes with the one who 
has chosen her to the center of the rine:; 
here they stand until the. words, "Down 
on this carpet you must kneel," when they 
kneel facing one another, and at the 
words, "Kiss the one that you love best," 
a kiss is exchanged. After this they arise, 
and the one who was in the center of the 
ring at the beginning of the game now 
joiiis the children in the circle, while the 
chosen one remains in the center, when 
the game once more begins. 



RING ROUND ROSY. 

HE children form a circle, 
f"p> hold of one another's hands 
circle around, singing: 

"King round Kosy, 
Pots filled with posies, 
The one that stoops last 
Has to catch." 



taking 
, and 



At the last word all stoop; the slowest 
child or the one who "stoops last" must 
stand in the center of the ring and count 
ten. As the word ten drops from her lips 
all other children must rise and run in any 
direction, the. "catcher" trying to touch 
some one or more of them ; all thus caught 
must in turn help touch the remainder. 
The children who are being caught are at 
liberty to stoop at any time or place, and 
remain thus until the leader again counts 
ten, when all rise and run again. The 
game continues until all are caught. 



GREEN GRAVEL. 

'HIS is another of the "ring" games 
of which children are so fond. All 
join hands and form a circle, while they 
march around and sing : 

"Green gravel, green gravel, 
As green as grass can grow — 
Oh Mary, oh Mary, 
Your true lover's dead — 
He wrote you a letter, 
To turn around your head." 

After the singing of which "Mary" 
turns around and faces the outside, of the 
circle, while the marching continues, sub- 
stituting some other of the children's 
names for that of "Mary ;" the game con- 
tinues until all children have turned 
around their heads, then two of the taller 
of the lot hold their hands high, while 
all others pass under them, after which 
each of these two turn their arms over 
their heads, after which miracle ( ?), as it 
appears to childish eyes, all are once again 
facing the center of the ring and the game 
begins anew. 



PIG IN THE PARLOR. 

tIG IN THE PAKLOK" is a favorite 
picnic game with young people, be- 
ing a sort of a round dance. The company 
is divided into couples. These form a 
circle, with an odd boy in the center of the 
ring. The couples then march around 



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A MOONLIGHT MASQUERADE. 



him, two abreast, singing (to the air "My 
Father and Mother are Irish") : 

"We have a pig in the parlor, we have a 

pig in the parlor, 
We have a pig in the parlor, and he is 

Irish too ; 
Your right hand to your partner, your 

left hand to your neighbor, 
Your right hand to your partner, then 

all will promenade ; 
Then all will promenade, then all will 

promenade, 
Your right hand to your partner, then all 

will promenade." 

At the words, "Your right hand to your 
partner," each boy takes his partner by 
the right hand and passes her on to the 
boy ahead, who gives her his left hand; 
this continues until the words, "All prom- 
enade," when the new couples fall in line 
and promenade while the singing con- 
tinues. 

In changing partners the boy in the 
center or the "pig" falls into line and thus 
secures a partner for the promenade, 
throwing another out of the march or 
promenade. In this case when the singing 
is renewed the lines may be changed to 
"We have a new pig in the parlor," etc. 
If, however, the same old pig is yet in the 
center, the words may be "The same old 
pig in the parlor," etc., and thus the game 
continues. 



A PRETTY LAWN FETE. 

fT was my good fortune, a short time 
ago, to be one of the participants in 
a pretty lawn fete; the hostess clad in 
simple white gown and wearing red 
damask roses in her sunny hair, and at her 
white throat, stood under the shade of an 
old apple tree to receive her guests. 

The lawn was an old-fashioned country 
affair, with quantities of trees and flower- 
ing shrubs, and a veranda that extended 
around three sides of the house; on this 
veranda, which was shaded by the heavy 
foliage of the Virginia creeper, were 



placed the refreshment tables, small round 
ones, draped in white and decorated in 
simple garden flowers. 

Hammocks were stretched under a part 
of the trees, while rugs and cushions re- 
posed under others, while the camp chair 
and veranda settees extended welcome 
arms to the guests. 

The piano had been transferred from 
parlor to veranda, and its lively music 
afforded much enjoyment to the guests. 

Lawn tennis and croquet were provided 
for the amusement of such of the guests 
as cared to indulge in games. 

The menu for the occasion consisted of 
peanut sandwiches, wrapped in tissue 
paper and tied with dainty ribbons, olives, 
iced lemonade, angel cake, fruits, and 
strawberry f rappe. 

The hours of the entertainment were 
from five to eight. 



A MOONLIGHT MASQUERADE. 

FULL September moon, assisted by 
Japanese lanterns hung from trees 
and stretched wires, illuminated this social 
function. 

The invitation cards read: "A Moon- 
light Masquerade," and in the lower left- 
hand corner the word "Costume." This 
made the meaning so plain that none "need 
err therein," and the result was as a pic- 
ture from fairyland. Under the trees 
sported fairies, goblins, ghosts, soldiers, 
sailors, witches, Mother Hubbards, Mother 
Grundys, John Bulls, Uncle Sams, Jack- 
o-Lanterns, Little Mikado maids fresh 
from school, ballet girls, flower girls, 
clowns, bandits, cavaliers, Queens of 
Hearts, in fact every person, real or imag- 
inary, swelled the company that eventful 
night. 

When all had arrived the hostess chose 
a partner and led in a grand march, which 
took the form of a promenade in and out 
among the trees and shrubbery, with a 
change of partners every time the leaders 
blew a small silver whistle. This change 
was accomplished by each gentleman step- 



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239 



ping forward to the side of the lady di- 
rectly in front of him. This promenade 
ended in the dining-room beside the re- 
freshment table. After the refreshments 
had been served and just before arising 
from the table came the order from the 
hostess to unmask, and then, horror of 
horrors, many a young gallant found that 
the imaginary young lady that he was so 
sure he recognized and to whom he had 
been making such tender speeches, was 
none other than a fellow gallant disguised 
as a Mother Hubbard, Dame Rumor, or 
some equally feminine character. 

After the unmasking all again repaired 
to the lawn, where such childish games as 
"Black Man" and "Hide and Seek/' "Drop 
the Handkerchief," and "King William" 
w r ere indulged in much to the enjoyment of 
all. At a late hour all departed for their 
homes declaring the Moonlight Masquer- 
ade an unqualified success. 



A HAY-RICK PARTY. 

N rural districts one of the most pleas- 
ant of out-door amusements is a Hay- 
Rick Party. The invitations are. issued by 
the party wishing to entertain in this man- 
ner and all guests assemble promptly at 
the appointed hour. 

The hay-ricks are waiting, all ready to 
bear the merry party away o'er hill and 
dale. The ricks may be decorated with 
streaming bunting, branches of trees and 
waving flags. Inside the ricks should have 
a plentiful supply of fresh, sweet-smelling 
hay, over which has been spread carriage 
afghans for the protection of dainty 
gowns. A number of stringed instruments 
should be provided with musicians to use 
same for the entertainment of the party — 
a guitar, mandolin and banjo will do much 
to make such a party a decided success. 

When all guests have arrived the wagons 
are driven to the door, the parties enter 
them and are driven away; the hostess 
has made previous arrangements with the 
drivers in regard to the route to be trav- 
ersed, etc. The drive may include a jour- 



ney to a neighboring town, where mutual 
friends may be serenaded or ice cream 
parlors invaded. 

On returning home a light refreshment 
may be served, consisting of lemonade and 
cake, or watermelon in season ; after the 
serving of which the guests depart. 

A moonlight night should be chosen for 
such an outing. The number of ricks re- 
quired will be determined by the size of 
the party. Above all be sure you have 
trusty drivers and horses. 



BASKET BAIL FOR WOMEN. 

ASKET BALL may be played on 
any grounds free from obstruction ; 
the grounds should not exceed 3,500 
square feet of actual playing space. There 
must be a well-defined line marked around 
the floor or field. The side boundaries 
should be at least three feet from the wall 
or fence. The end boundaries should be 
directly below the surface against which 
the goal is placed. These lines form the 
boundaries of the field of play. 

The field should be divided into three 
equal parts by field lines, parallel to the 
end boundary lines. 

The ball used in this game should be 
made of a rubber bladder covered with a 
leather case; it should be from thirty to 
thirty-two inches in circumference. It 
should weigh not less than eighteen nor 
more than thirty ounces. It is tightly 
inflated and so laced that it cannot be held 
by the lacing. 

The goals are composed of hammock 
nets of cord suspended from metal rings 
eighteen inches in diameter. The rings 
should be placed ten feet above the ground 
in the center of the short side of the actual 
playing field. The inside rim should ex- 
tend six inches from the surface of a flat 
perpendicular screen or other rigid surface 
measuring at least six feet horizontally 
and four vertically. If a screen is used it 
must not extend more than one foot below 
the upper edge of the goal. These goals 
must be rigidly supported from below, and 



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must have no projections beyond the sides 
nor above the upper edge of the, goal. 

The number of players constituting a 
team should number not less than five nor 
more than ten members. 

The required officials consist of a 
referee, two umpires, a scorer, timekeeper, 
and four linesmen ; two from each side. 

THE GAME. 

The referee puts the ball in play by 
tossing it up in a plane at right angles to 
the side lines, so that it will drop near the 
center of the field, which shall be indicated 
by a conspicuous mark. This is to be 
done at the opening of the game, at the be- 
ginning of the, second half, and after each 
goal. After the referee puts the ball in 
play in the center it must be first touched 
by one of the centers, who shall have been 
previously indicated to the, umpires. Vio- 
lation of this rule constitutes a foul. Both 
players may jump for the ball, the better 
one of course gaining the advantage. 

When two fouls at once, on opposite 
sides, are called, they should be thrown in 
succession. The ball should then be put in 
play in the center. 

After time has been called the referee 
shall put the ball in play by tossing it up 
in such a manner that it will drop near 
the spot where it was when time was called, 
unless it was held out of bounds. In this 
case play shall be resumed at the whistle 
of the referee, as if time had not been 
called. The two opponents nearest this 
spot when time was called shall be the first 
to touch the ball after play is resumed. 
They shall be indicated by the umpire. 
When the ball is put in play the players 
who are to first touch the ball must not 
stand further than two feet from the spot 
where the ball is to fall. 

A goal made from the field usually 
counts two points; a goal made from a 
foul one point ; a goal thrown counts for 
the side into whose goal the ball is thrown, 
even though it was done by mistake. 

A game is decided by the winning of the 
most points in a certain playing time, usu- 



ally forty minutes. The game consists of 
two halves of twenty minutes each, with a 
rest of ten minutes between the halves. 
The teams change goals at the end of the 
first half. The ball may be thrown or 
batted in any direction with one or both 
hands, but never kicked or struck with 
the fists. The ball must not be held longer 
than three seconds. 





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could not boast of half a dozen courts of 
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and followers of the game are beyond 
enumeration. 

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stay, for they recognize its physical bene- 
fits and harmless features above all, espe- 
cially the latter, which should be the chief 
recommendation of any athletic pastime. 

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advancement of the game has been im- 
properly constructed courts. A perfect 
court makes a perfect player, and nothing 
aifects the pleasure of the exercise so much 
as crooked walls and an unbalanced floor. 
As a rule, however, the courts that have 
been erected in this country of late years 
answer the purpose fairly well, although 
the expenditure of a little more money 
would have produced a much better build- 
ing. 

While the game may be played on a 
court of any size it is perhaps better to 
state what should, as near as possible, con- 
stitute a regulation court. It should be 
sixty-five feet long, twenty-four and one- 
i half feet wide and thirty-five feet high in 
' the front, tapering down to thirty-three 
feet at the back wall. A brick wall about 
twelve inches in thickness and faced with 
I marble makes the best front wall. Cement 
\ side walls are. to be desired. The floor 
should be white pine boards, laid on beams 
ten inches apart. The back wall to be 
twelve feet high and of wood, back of 
which should be a gallery of about two 
hundred seating capacity. 

RULES AND EXPLANATIONS. 

Twenty-one aces shall constitute a game. 

An ace is when a server sends the ball 
to any part of the outer court beyond the 
ace line, and it is not returned to the front 
wall by an opponent. All balls must be 
recovered on the first bound after reaching 
the floor. That is, a ball can take the cir- 
cuit of the four walls before it can be 
termed returnable. The service is con- 
sidered to be very difficult when the, ball, 
after hitting the front wall, takes in either 
the side walls on a fly, bounds on the floor, 
and then comes off the back wall, or after 
/ hitting one side wall bounds from the. floor 
to the back Avail, and thence to the other 
side wall. The great trouble in recovering 
these balls is that the force of their flight 
is expended when they come in contact 
with the last wall, and, therefore, drop 
dead to the floor. If the ball is returned 
to the front wall the server must recovp^ if 



either on the fly or first bound; if he 
fails the hand is out, and his opponent be- 
comes server. It is allowable to serve at 
either side of the court, but always within 
the two parallel lines. Stepping beyond 
the inner line twice in succession, or hit- 
ting either side wall, roof or floor before 
striking the front wall, or serving three 
short balls in succession, shall cause the 
loss of a hand. 

A low sharp service that can be placed 
at a side angle of the court without any 
rise to the ball, or sent to the extreme out- 
side corners, is particularly destructive. 
Then there are the "Scotch twist," a high 
service that sends the ball around the court 
in an irritating fashion, and a towering 
ball, that does not commence to drop until 
reaching the. corners, and then continues its 
fall close to the wall. There are a few 
players, but they can be counted upon 
one's fingers, who can serve the ball to the 
right and left without changing their posi- 
tion. This requires a great deal of skill 
and experience, but it can be done effect- 
ively, and should be seen oftener in prac- 
tice. 

The ball shall be one and seven-eighths 
inches in diameter and one and five-eighths 
ounces in weight. 

The brilliancy of the game depends as 
much upon a good ball as a good pair of 
hands. An improperly made ball is dis- 
couraging to an expert; in fact, no one 
who has any regard for the safety of his 
hands, should indulge in the game without 
first testing the quality of the little sphere. 
While no general regulations have ever 
existed in regard to this matter, the Brook- 
lyn Handball Club, the leading organiza- 
tion of the kind in the world, has adopted 
a standard ball which is recognized at all 
the prominent courts in America as the 
best for all purposes. It is constructed 
with as much care as the Spalding regula- 
tion baseball, or the standard cricket ball 
of England. The. foundation is laid with 
a round bit of cork or solid rubber. That 
is wrapped with a thin strip of rubber, 
upon the top of which is rolled yarn of the 



242 



HANDBALL. 



finest character. The covering is of horse- 
hide, neatly stitched. A great deal depends 
on the strength of the wrapping whether 
the ball will be lively or just moderately 
so. Some players like plenty of life in 
the ball, some admire a hard, dead ball, 
while leading experts prefer a well-made 
ball above anything else, one neither too 
hard nor too soft, but with a true and fair- 
ly lively bound. There is a great deal of 
time and labor expended in perfecting 
these little globes, and those of the best 
make are sold for $1 apiece. 

The Irish ball, as a general rule, differs 
considerably from the one used in Amer- 
ica. They are smaller, and not near as 
much attention is paid to the composition 
or finish. The harder the ball, the better 
an Irish expert likes it. As he depends 
chiefly upon service for his success, he 
wants a ball that will fairly batter down 
a front wall. That is the reason why seven- 
eighths of the players in Ireland at the 
present time object to the American style 
of playing the game and adopting their 
ball. Take the service away from them, 
and you destroy all the effects of their 
playing. 

It is a four-handed match, parties win- 
ning the toss are allowed only one hand at 
the commencement. The server's partner 
shall stand inside of the ace line, with his 
back to either the right or left wall, until 
the service ball strikes the front wall. All 
balls striking an opponent shall be a 
hinder. 

The server's partner and one of the 
opponents generally stand side, by side 
against the left-hand wall, if the service is 
from the right. The recoverer is on the 
alert in the outer court the same as in a 
single-handed game. It is not compulsory, 
however, that the opponent of the server's 
partner shall stand just outside of the ace 
line. He can go in the outer court and 
help his partner to recover service, but he 
may be more useful at the line, particu- 
larly to take all line service to the left 
on the fly. This is a very important posi- 
tion against a heavy server, because in a 



majority of instances it results in the dis- 
posing of the hand. 

A hinder is when a ball strikes your 
opponent and retards it from reaching the 
front wall. For instance, if the recoverer 
of service should strike either of his oppon- 
ents with the ball on the way to its desti- 
nation, it is termed a hinder. If said re- 
coverer, however, strikes his partner 
instead of an opponent, it is an ace against 
him. Then, again, if the server should be 
hit by his partner's ball, it is a hand out. 
A great many of these hindrances are acci- 
dents, pure and simple, but in some in- 
stances they can be avoided, and if, in the 
opinion of the referee, the hinder was in- 
tentional, an ace can be counted against the 
side committing it, or a hand be declared 
out, just as the case may be. A server at 
work frequently hits his partner while 
standing within the ace line; this is also 
called a hinder. If a ball from a server 
strikes either of his opponents, before or 
after bounding, it becomes non-playable 
and is counted an ace. 

When a ball from the server drops any- 
where inside of the ace line, the player has 
the privilege of using his hand or foot ; if 
the hand is used, it counts the same as if 
it was served regularly over the line ; if I 
the foot, the striker or his partner has the 
privilege of stopping the ball before it | 
reaches the front wall. If the ball after 
being struck with the foot gets to the front 
wall, the striker or his partner shall have 
to return it before stopping it. 

The use of the foot is not very frequent, 
and is not considered to be at all scientific. 
There is considerable talk of barring the 
play altogether. It is claimed that it would 
be difficult as well as dangerous to culti- 
vate the style, and what effectiveness could 
be reached would be more than offset by 
injuries to players. 

Only one. hand shall be used in striking 
the ball, otherwise a foul is committed, 
and the punishment is the loss of a hand 
or an ace. 

After a server and partner shall have 
been retired they must be allowed sufficient 



GAME OF PUFF AND DART. 



243 



time to take their positions in the outer 
court. 

All claims shall be decided by the 
referee, whose decisions are final. 

This is one of the most interesting 
features connected with the game as it is 
played in America. If there is a single- 
handed or double-handed match, a man 
is usually selected for referee who has the 
entire confidence of the principals and 
spectators, and strange to say, that in all 
the important contests within the experi- 
ence of the writer, it has never been a 
difficult matter to agree upon that official. 
And his labors are very exacting, too, and 
without he makes himself master of the 
situation at once, he will be in a far worse 
position than the poor umpire on a baseball 
field. But a conflict between a handball 
player and a referee rarely occurs. If an 
appeal is made by a player, and sometimes 
it is done very vigorously, the referee gen- 
erally decides the point quickly and with 
such firmness that convinces the player 
that to dispute the decision would be use- 
less and costly. The referee has the power 
to inflict various punishments upon those 
who violate the playing rules, and obedi- 
ence to that official is considered to be im- 
perative. 

While not being covered by the rules, 
it is incumbent upon each and every man 
to make as neat an appearance as possible, 
while in the court. This is carried out in 
almost every instance, and in no other 
athletic exercise is this feature so strictly 
observed. Twenty years ago men could 
•play under any conditions — bare feet was 
a favorite with many, while in other in- 
stances scanty attire prevailed. If a man 
were to appear under these circumstances 
at the present time he would soon be told 
that he was not wanted. 



GAME OF PUFF AND DART. 

HIS is a fine out-of-door game from 

I fp) France, although there are. parts of 

the world where great grown men use giant 

puff and darts for real weapons of warfare 



to do battle with and to chase their game 
in the wilderness. The puff and dart is a 
cousin to the pea-shooter and is just a 
little larger and played with darts instead 
of peas or pellets. In Paris the toy shops 
keep the tubes on sale, all sorts and varie- 
ties, made simply of metal, or very elegant 
looking objects out of bamboo with an in- 
ner copper tube running through the center 
and a screw top and ferrule to guard it 
when it is not in use, something after the 
fashion of the better makes of fishing-rods 
which look exactly like walking-sticks 
when they are folded up to put away. 

A clever boy can make a tube for him- 
self or he can buy the largest size of pea- 
shooter to be had and then he is ready to 
make the dart. For this take a few pen- 
holder sticks and cut them into lengths of 
two inches. Next get some worsted and 
strong waxed thread. Fill one end of each 
stick with the worsted and let a series of 
loops project beyond. Bind it around with 
the thread. Just how much you will need 
you will have to ascertain by experiment. 

For the spike take a good-sized nail, file 
up the sharp end into a good point, not too 
fine; dip the point into the grease of a 
candle, hold it in the flame until it be- 
comes nearly red hot. Then plunge it into 
cold water ; this will harden it. Now file 
off the projecting end piece of the metal at 
the end ; bore a hole somewhat too small 
at the end of the stick, force the blunt end 
of the nail into it and then bind it round 
firmly with waxed thread. Now trim off 
the ends of the worsted and your dart is 
complete. 

With a three-foot tube this dart will 
pierce an almost limitless number of sheets 
of paper at ten or twelve feet distance and, 
if painstakingly made, will fly with won- 
derful accuracy. To take aim hold both 
hands close together. Be quick and de- 
cided or your tube will be certain to wab- 
ble. Shooting with a puff and dart is quite 
unlike rifle-shooting and rather more re- 
sembles the shot and aim of the bow and 
arrow. Fasten your target on a tree and 
you are ready for an afternoon's sport. 



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QAME OF PUFF AND DART. 



In the wilds of Borneo or on the pampas 
of South America the rough little, natives 
make these tubes as long as ten and twelve 
feet and use tiny things of darts feathered 
at one end and at the other finished with 
tips which have been dipped into a terrible 
poison. The merest flesh wound in any 
part of a man or a tiger, a jackal or any 
other living thing is quite enough to cause 
immediate death. 



A NEW GAME FOE BOYS. 

^3 OME time ago, when traveling, I came 
^^ across a new game, which, although 
simple, and easy to play, was so fascinating 
that I think every boy or girl would enjoy 
it. 

Here is the way to make the apparatus 
needed: Take six boards about eight 
inches wide and two feet long and place 
them on edge in a parallel position, with 
the long edges to the ground. With a 
gimlet bore a hole in each corner of the. 
boards, and through each set of holes thus 
made insert an iron rod, two and one-half 
feet long. Adjust the boards on the rods 
so that a space of about five, inches inter- 
venes between each two boards. Cut ten 
tin or wood doors, five inches wide and 
eight inches long, to fit in the spaces under 
the. rods and between the boards, and then 
hang these doors on the rods with cord or 
wire, taking care to have them loose 



enough to swing freely. To make the ap- 
paratus steady, nail a narrow board two 
and one-half feet long across the top of it, 
midway between the rods. You will now 
have a structure containing five oblong 
compartments, open at the top and bot- 
tom, and closed at the ends by the swing- 




ing doors. Beginning at one end, number 
the doors on one side of the apparatus 10, 
20, 30, 40, 50. Now procure three large 
balls — croquet balls preferred — and your 
game is ready. 

To play the game, each contestant 
stands at a distance of thirty feet, and 
rolls the balls, one at a time, along the 
ground at the little doors, the object being 
to send the ball with just force enough so 
that it enters one of the doors on the side 
toward the player yet does not go out 
through the corresponding door on the 
opposite side. Of course the larger the 
number on the door of the compartment in 
which the ball remains, the larger the 
count for the player. The game continues, 
the players — of which there may be any 
number — each taking his turn at bowling 
the three balls, until someone has 200 
points. — Record-Herald. 



BOOK V. 

LITERARY SOCIETIES. 

HOW TO ORGANIZE AND CONDUCT THEM. 
^K ^C ^K 



RULES OF ORDER AND PARLIAMEN- 
TARY PROCEDURE. 

LL permanent associations formed 
^ for mutual benefit must have a Con- 
stitution by which they shall be governed. 
Where it is intended to organize an asso- 
ciation for the intellectual improvement 
or social enjoyment of its members, a 
number of persons meet together and select 
a name for the organization. The next 
step is to appoint a committee, whose duty 
it shall be to prepare a Constitution and 
Code of By-Laws for the. society. These 
must be reported to the society at its next 
meeting, and must be adopted by the votes 
of a majority of that body before they can 
be in force. 

The Constitution consists of the. rules 
which form the foundation upon which the 
organization is to rest. It should be brief 
and explicit. It should be considered and 
adopted section by section ; should be re- 
corded in a book for that purpose, and 
should be signed by all the members of 
the society. 

Amendments to the Constitution should 
be adopted in the same way, and should be 
signed by each member of the society. 

In addition to the Constitution it is 
usual to adopt a series of minor rules, 
which should be explanatory of the prin- 
ciples of the Constitution. These are 
termed By-Laws, and should be recorded 
in the same book with the Constitution, 
and immediately after it. New by-laws 
may be added from time to time as the 
necessity for them may arise. It is best 
to have as few as possible. They should 
be brief and so clear that their meaning 



may be easily comprehended, and should 
govern the action, of the body. 

CONSTITUTION. 

As growth and development of mind, 
together with readiness and fluency of 
speech, are the results of investigation and 
free discussion of religious, educational, 
political and other topics, the undersigned 
agree to form an association for its govern- 
ment and do hereby adopt the following 
Constitution : 

Article I. The name and title, of this 

organization shall be and its object 

shall be the free discussion of any subject 
coming before the meeting for the purpose 
of diffusing knowledge among its mem- 
bers. 

Article II. The officers of the associa- 
tion shall consist of a President, two or 
more Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding 
and Recording Secretary, a Treasurer and 
a Librarian, who shall be elected annually 
by ballot, on the first Monday in January 
of each year, said officers to hold their posi- 
tion until their successors are elected. 

Article III. It shall be the duty of the 
President to preside at all public meetings 
of the society. The First Vice-President 
shall preside in the absence of the Presi- 
dent, and in case of the. absence of both 
President and Vice-President, it shall be 
the duty of the Treasurer to preside. 

The duty of the Secretary shall be to 
conduct the. correspondence, keep the 
records of the society, and read at each 
meeting a report of the work done at the 
preceding meeting. 

The Treasurer shall keep the funds of 



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LITERARY SOCIETIES. 



the society, making an annual report of all 
moneys received, disbursed, and the 
amount on hand. 

It shall be the duty of the Librarian to 
keep, in a careful manner, all books, 
records and manuscripts in the possession 
of the society. 

Article IV. There shall be appointed, 
by the President, at the first meeting after 
his election, the following standing com- 
mittees, to consist of three members, each, 
namely : On lectures, library, finance and 
printing, whose, duties shall be designated 
by the President. 

The question for debate at the succeed- 
ing meeting shall be determined by a ma- 
jority vote of the members present. 

Article V. Any lady or gentleman may 
become a member of this society by the con- 
sent of a majority of the members present, 
the signing of the Constitution and the 
payment of the membership fee. It shall 
be the privilege of the society to elect any 
person whose presence, may be advantag- 
eous to the society, an honorary member, 
who shall not be required to pay member- 
ship fees or dues. 

Article VI. — This association shall meet 
and at such other times as a num- 
ber of the society, consisting of at least 
six members of the association, shall deter- 
mine. The President shall be authorized 
to call special meetings upon the written 
request of any six members of the society, 
at which meetings one-third of the mem- 
bers shall be sufficient to constitute a quo- 
rum for the transaction of business. 

Article. VII. — It shall be the duty of the 
finance committee to determine the amount 
of dues necessary to be collected from each 
member, and to inform the Treasurer of 
the amount, who shall promptly proceed 
to collect the same at such time as the 
committee may designate. 

Article VIII. — The usual parliamen- 
tary rules and general form of conducting 
public meetings shall be the standard au- 
thority in governing the deliberations of 
lli is association. 

Article IX. — Any member neglecting to 



pay dues, or who shall be. guilty of im- 
proper conduct, calculated to bring this 
association into disrepute, shall be expelled 
from the membership of the Society by a 
two-thirds vote of the members present at 
any regular meeting. ~No member shall 
be expelled, however, until he shall have 
had notice of such intention on the part 
of the association, and has been given an 
opportunity of being heard in his own 
defense. 

Article X. — By giving written notice 
of the change at any regular meeting, this 
Constitution may be altered or amended 
at the next stated meeting by a vote of 
two-thirds of the members present. 

BY-LAWS. 

Rule 1. "No questions shall be stated 
unless moved by two members, nor be open 
for consideration until stated by the chair. 
When a question is before the Society, no 
motion shall be received, except to lay on 
the table, the previous question, to post- 
pone, to refer, or to amend, and these 
shall have precedence in the order in which 
they are arranged. 

Rule 2. When a member intends to 
speak on a question he shall rise in his 
place and respectfully address his re- 
marks to the President, confine himself to 
the question, and avoid personality. Should 
more than one member rise to speak at 
the same time, the President shall deter- 
mine who is entitled to the floor. 

Rule 3. Every member shall have the 
privilege of speaking three times on any 
question under consideration, but not oft" 
ener, unless by the consent of the. society 
(determined by vote) ; and no member 
shall speak more than once, until every 
member wishing to speak shall have 
spoken. 

Rule 4. The President, while presid- 
ing, shall state every question coming be- 
fore the society, and immediately before 
putting it to vote shall ask: "Are you 
ready for the question ?" Should no mem- 
ber rise to speak, he shall rise to put the 
question ; and after he has risen no mem- 



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ber shall speak upon it, unless by permis- 
sion of the society. 

Rule 5. The affirmative and negative 
of the question having been both put and 
answered, the President declares the num- 
ber of legal votes cast, and wbether the 
affirmative or negative have it. 

Kule 6. All questions, unless other- 
wise fixed, by law, shall be decided by a 
majority of votes. 

Rule 7. After any question, except 
one of indefinite postponement, has been 
decided, any member may have a recon- 
sideration thereof, if done in two weeks 
after the decision. A motion for recon- 
sideration the second time, of the same 
question, shall not be in order at any time. 

Rule 8. Any two members may call 
for a division of a question, when the same 
will admit of it. 

Rule 9. The President, or any mem- 
ber, may call a member to order while 
speaking, when the debate must be sus- 
pended, and the member takes his seat 
until the question of order is decided. 

Rule 10. The President shall pre- 
serve order and decorum; may speak on 
points of order in preference to other mem- 
bers, and shall decide all questions of order 
subject to the appeal to the society by any 
member, on which appeal no person shall 
speak but the President and the member 
called to order. 

Rule 11. Xo motion, or proposition 
on a subject different from that under 
consideration shall be admitted under 
color of an amendment. 

Rule 12. Xo addition, alteration or 
amendment to the Constitution, By-Laws, 
etc., shall be acted upon, except in accord- 
ance with the Constitution. 

Rule 13. Xo nomination shall be con- 

Isidered as made until seconded. 
Rule 14. President shall sign all pro- 
ceedings of the meetings. 

Rule 15. No member shall vote by 
proxy. 

Rule 16. No motion shall be with- 
drawn by the mover unless the second 
withdraw his second. 



Rule 17. Xo extract from any bonk 
shall be read consuming more than live 
minutes. 

Rule 18. Xo motion for adjournment 
shall be in order until after 10 o'clock. 

Rule 19. Every motion shall be re- 
duced to writing, should the officers of 
the society desire it. 

Rule 20. An amendment to an amend- 
ment is in order, but not to amend an 
amendment to an amendment of a main 
question. 

Rule 21. The previous question shall 
be put in this form, if seconded by a ma- 
jority of the members present: "Shall the 
main question be put ?" If decided in the 
affirmative, the main question is to be put 
immediately, and all further debate or 
amendment must be suspended. 

Rule 22. Members not voting shall be 
considered as voting in the. affirmative, 
unless excused by the society. 

Rule 23. Any member offering a pro- 
test against any of the proceedings of this 
society may have the same if in respectful 
language, entered in full upon the min- 
utes. 

Rule 24. Xo subject laid on the table 
shall be taken up again on the same even- 
ing. 

Rule. 25. Xo motion shall be debat- 
able until seconded. 

Rule 26. Points of order are debat- 
able to the society. 

Rule 27. Appeals and motions to re- 
consider or adjourn are not debatable. 

Rule 28. When a very important mo- 
tion or amendment shall be made and sec- 
onded, the. mover thereof may be called 
upon to reduce the same to writing, and 
hand it in at the table, from which it shall 
be read, open to the society for debate. 

Rule 29. The mover of a motion shall 
be at liberty to accept any amendment 
thereto ; but if an amendment be offered 
and not accepted, yet duly seconded, the 
society shall pass upon it before voting 
upon the original motion. 

Rule 30. Every officer, on leaving his 
office, shall give to his successor all papers, 



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documents, books or money belonging to 
the society. 

Eule 31. JSTo smoking shall be allowed 
in the hall. 

Eule 32. When a motion to adjourn is 
carried, no member shall leave his seat 
until the President has left his chair. 

Rule 33. No alteration can be made 
in these Eules of Order without a four- 
fifths vote of the society, and two weeks' 
notice ; neither can they be suspended but 
by a like vote, and then for the evening 
only. 



PARLIAMENTARY RULES AND 
USAGES. 

HE following are complete rules in 
plain and compact form, for con- 
ducting a public meeting : 

Quorum. — A quorum is a sufficient 
number of the members of an association 
to legally transact business. Unless a 
quorum is present no business is in order, 
except to adjourn. A majority of the mem- 
bers constitutes a natural quorum, but the 
By-Laws of the association may prescribe 
a smaller number. 

THE CHAIRMAN. 

It is the duty of the Chairman to open 
the meeting at the time fixed upon, by tak- 
ing the chair, calling the house to order, 
to announce the business before the house 
in the order in which it is to be acted upon ; 
to receive and submit all motions; to put 
to vote all questions which are regularly 
moved, or which necessarily arise in the 
course of proceedings, and to announce the 
result ; to restrain every one, when engaged 
in debate, within the rules of order ; to en- 
force the observance of order and de- 
corum ; to appoint committees ; to authen- 
ticate by his signature, when necessary all 
the acts and proceedings of the house, and 
generally to declare its will. 

He may speak to points of order in 
preference to others; shall decide all 
questions of order, and if the house is 
evenly divided he may give the casting 



vote, in doing which he may, if he pleases, 
give his reasons. 

THE CLERK. 

It is the duty of the Secretary or Clerk, 
to keep correct minutes of the proceedings 
of the house; to read all papers when 
ordered, and for this purpose he should al- 
ways rise; to call the roll, and state the 
answer when a vote is taken by yeas and 
nays ; to have the custody of all papers and 
documents, and to authenticate the acts 
and proceedings of the house by his signa- 
ture. 

COMMITTEES. 

Standing committees sit permanently; 
special committees perform only some par- 
ticular duty, when they are discharged. 
The person first named is usually regarded 
as Chairman, but this is only a matter of 
courtesy; every committee has a right to 
select its own Chairman. Custom, however, 
has practically taken away this right, and 
it is considered bad form to elect any other 
person, than the first-named as Chairman. 
The mover of a motion to commit should 
be placed on the committee and first- 
named, except where the matter committed 
concerns him personally. In the appoint- 
ment of the committee no person directly 
opposed to the measure committed should 
be named, and when any person who is 
thus opposed to same, hears himself named 
of its committee he should ask to be ex- 
cused. 

The chair appoints all committees. 
Committees do not adjourn, but, when 
they have concluded their deliberations, 
should rise and report. The report should 
be presented by the Chairman. When the 
report is received the committee is dis- 
charged and cannot act further without 
new power. 

Any committee required or entitled to 
report upon a subject referred to them 
may make a majority and minority report, 
while any member of such committee dis- 
senting in whole or part, from either the 
conclusion or the reasoning of both the 
majority and minority, may also present a 







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statement of his reasons for such dissent, 
which should be received in connection 
with the report. 

The committee of the whole is an ex- 
pedient to simplify the business of legis- 
lative bodies. No record is made of its 
proceedings. The presiding officer puts 
the question, and, if same is carried, ap- 
points some person as chairman and then 
vacates the chair. 

MOTIONS. 

Propositions made, to a deliberative as- 
sembly are called motions; when the 
proposition is put to vote it is called the 
question. A motion cannot be entertained 
or the question put until the same has been 
seconded. After this it becomes the prop- 
erty of the house, and cannot be with- 
drawn except by permission. It must be 
in writing whenever the house or presiding 
officer requires it, and must be read when 
any person demands it for information. 

An exception to the rule requiring a 
second to a motion is made in cases when 
the proposition is to proceed with or to 
execute an order of the house ; as where it 
is moved to proceed with an order of the 
day, or where a call is made for the en- 
forcement of some order relating to the 
observance of decorum. No motion can be 
made while a speaker has the floor, nor 
while another motion is pending, except 
to be a question of privilege. 

AMENDMENTS. 

A motion may be amended by inserting 

or adding words, or striking out words, or 

by striking out and inserting words. An 

amendment takes precedent of the original 

question and must be first decided. So, 

| too, an amendment to an amendment must 

7 be decided before the. amendment. A 

motion may be made to amend, after which 

a motion will be made to amend the 

! amendment, but this is the full limit of the 

i rule by which one motion may be put upon 

: another. A motion to amend the second 

amendment is not in order. 

Questions of privilege cannot be 



amended, except that a motion to post- 
pone can be amended as to time. 

THE QUESTION. 

The question is first to be put on the af- 
firmative and then on the negative side; 
the vote in most cases being by oral re- 
sponse. If there are doubts as to the voice 
of the majority, any one may call for a 
division. In all cases where the house is 
equally divided the question is lost unless 
the presiding officer affirms it by a casting 
vote. 

When a division is had, those in the 
affirmative on the question should first rise 
and be counted, or, if there still be a doubt, 
or a count be called for, the chairman 
should appoint two tellers, one from each 
side, to make the count and report the 
same to the chairman, who should then de- 
clare the same to the house. 

In small matters of routine business or 
trifling importance, such as receiving re- 
ports, withdrawing motions, etc., the pre- 
siding officer may suppose the consent of 
the house where no objection is expressed, 
and need not give them the trouble of put- 
ting the question formally. 

A question should always be stated by 
the chair before it is put, after which it is 
open to debate. 

Questions may be stated by the chair 
while sitting, but he should always rise to 
put a question, and may use this form: 
"As many as are of the opinion that 
(question stated here) will say aye;" and 
after the affirmative voice is expressed, 
"As many as are of a contrary opinion, 
will say no." He declares the vote. 

After a question has been put it is not 
debatable, but after the affirmative, is 
put, any person who has not spoken before 
to the question may arise and speak before 
the negative is put. 

DIVISION OF QUESTION. 

Any person may call for the division of 
a question if it comprehend propositions, 
in substance, so distinct, that, one being 
taken away, a substantive proposition shall 
remain for decision. 



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When a question is divided, after the 
question on the first part, the second is 
open to debate and amendment. 

PRIVILEGED QUESTIONS. 

When a question is under debate, no 
motion shall be received, except to ad- 
journ ; to lay on the table ; for the previous 
question ; to postpone to a certain day ; to 
commit; to amend; to postpone in- 
definitely. The motions have precedence 
in the order in which they stand arranged, 
and are called privileged questions. 

A motion to adjourn is always in order 
and takes precedence of all other motions, 
and an order of the day takes the place of 
all questions except adjournment. 

When a matter has been laid on the table 
it may be taken up at any time afterward 
and considered, but not at the same meet- 
ing or session at which it was tabled. 
Frequently this motion is made to finally 
dispose of the matter and it always has 
this effect when no motion is afterward 
made to take it up. The proper motion for 
proceeding with a matter that has been 
ordered to lie on the table, is, that the 
house, do now proceed to consider the mat- 
ter, although it would be proper to move 
that the matter be taken up for considera- 
tion. There are several questions which, 
being incidental to every one, will take the 
place of every one, privileged or not; as, 
a question of order arising out of any other 
question must be decided before that ques- 
tion. 

A motion for indefinite postponement 
is generally resorted to in order to sup- 
press a question or prevent its coming to 
vote. 

PREVIOUS QUESTION. 

When any question is before the house 
any member may move that the question 
(called the main question) be now put, or 
as it is usually called, may move the pre- 
vious question. 

If it pass in the affirmative, then the 
mnin question is to be put immediately, 
and no further debate is admitted. 

The previous question being moved and 



seconded, the question from the chair 
should be, " Shall the main question be now 
put ?" If the nays prevail the main ques- 
tion remains as the question before the 
house, in the same stage of proceedings as 
before the previous question was moved. 

EQUIVALENT QUESTIONS. 

Where questions are perfectly equiv- 
alent, so that the negative of the one 
amounts to the affirmative of the other, and 
leaves no other alternative, the decision of 
the one necessarily concludes the other, 
thus the negative of striking out amounts 
to the affirmative of agreeing, and, there- 
fore, to put a question on agreeing after 
that of striking out, would be to put the 
same question in effect twice over. 

QUESTIONS OF ORDER. 

It is the duty of the Chairman to decide 
all questions of order whenever raised. 
Upon such questions no debate or discus- 
sion is in order, but, if the decision is not 
satisfactory, any one may object to it and 
appeal to the house. On appeal being 
taken the question should be: "Shall the 
decision of the chair stand as the judg- 
ment of the house ?" Whereupon the 
question may be debated and discussed the 
same as any other question. 

COMMITMENT. 

Any measure may be referred to a com- 
mittee on motion. This motion stands in 
the same degree with the previous question 
and postponement, and, if first made, takes 
precedence of them. A motion to commit 
may be amended by the substitution of one 
kind of committee, for another, or by en- 
larging or diminishing the number of the 
members of the committee, as originally 
proposed, or by instructions to the com- 
mittee. 

After a measure has been committed 
and reported, it should not in an ordinary 
course be recommitted, but in cases of im- 
portance 4 , and for special reasons, it is 
sometimes recommitted and usually to the 
same committee. 



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251 



RECONSIDERATION. 

When a motion or a question shall have 
been determined, either in the affirmative, 
or negative, it is always in order for any- 
one who voted with the majority, or in 
case the vote was equally divided, for one 
who voted in the negative, to move for a 
reconsideration thereof. Such motion 
must be made at the same meeting at 
which the former vote was taken. A mo- 
tion to consider, being put and lost, can- 
' not be renewed. 

UNDEBATABLE MOTIONS. 

A motion to adjourn, to lay on the table, 
and a call for the previous question, must 
be decided without debate. And all in- 
cidental questions of order, arising after 
a motion is made for either of the forego- 
ing questions, must be decided, whether on 
appeal or otherwise, without debate. 

ORDER IN DEBATE. 

When a person means to speak, he is to 
stand up in his place, with hat off, and ad- 
dress himself to the chair, who calls him 
by name, that all may take notice who it is 
that speaks. A person who is indisposed 
may be indulged to speak sitting. When 
a person rises to speak, no question is to be 
put, but he is to be heard undisturbed, un- 
less overruled. 

If two or more rise to speak, nearly to- 
gether, the chair determines who was first 
up and calls him by name, whereupon he 
proceeds, unless he voluntarily sits down 
and yields the floor to another. 

No one may speak more than twice to 

the same question without the consent of 

the house, except merely to. explain himself 

in some material part of his speech, or to 

the manner of the words in question, keep 

ing himself to that only and not going in 

the merits of it. 

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If the Chairman rises to speak, the p 

son standing must sit down, that the ch 

may be first heard. 

No one is to speak impertinently, or a k e 

side the question, or to use indec 



language against the proceedings of the 
house. Nor should a person in speaking, 
mention another then present, by name, 
but should describe him by his seat, or as 
"The gentleman who spoke, last," or "on 
the other side of the question/' etc. 

Any one when called to order by another 
or by the chair, must sit down, and not 
proceed without leave until the question of 
order shall have been decided by the chair. 

While the presiding officer is addressing 
the house or putting a question, no one 
should cross the floor or leave the room; 
nor, while another is speaking, walk be- 
tween him and the chair. 

ADJOURNMENT. 

A motion to adjourn is not susceptible 
of amendment. If it is desirable to ad- 
journ to any particular place or time, this 
may be accomplished by a previous res- 
olution to that effect. 



POEMS SUITABLE FOR LITERARY 
TABLEAUX. 

MANY poems may be utilized in form- 
ing beautiful tableaux. Tableaux 
are easily arranged and are an ever-wel- 
come source of delight. The lights should 
be shaded, and turned low. Unique effects 
may be obtained by placing sheets of thin 
paper of various colors in front of the. side 
lights. 

Tableau pictures may be arranged, by 
placing a large gilded frame (one made of 
pine, and given a generous coating of 
paint and gilding) in front of the person^ 
acting ess Qjie side lights shou v be pla # 
True GreatneW.e and clo*' fi« 

Daniel Webster. 
Abraham Lincoln. 
Queen Victoria. 
A Century of Progress. 
The World's Great Generals. 
The Pilgrims. 
Early Colonists. 
Our Flag. 
Progress in Civilization. 



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POEMS FOR LITERARY TABLEAUX. 



"For near her stood the little boy, 
Her childish favor singled ; 
His cap, pulled low, upon a face 
Where, pride and shame were mingled. 
Pushing with restless feet, the snow 
To right and left, he lingered. 
As restlessly, her tiny hands 
The blue-checked apron fingered." 
— In School Days: John G. Whittier. 

"For cups and silver on the burnished 

board 
Sparkled and shone ; so genial was the 

hearth, 
And on the right hand of the hearth he 

saw 
Philip, the slighted suitor of old times, 
Stout, rosy, with his babe across his 

knees, 
And o'er her second father stooped a girl, 
A later but a loftier Annie Lee, 
Fair-haired and tall, and from her lifted 

hand 
Dangled a length of ribbon and a ring 
To tempt the babe, who reared his creasy 

arms, 
Caught and ever miss'd it, and they 

laugh' d ; 
And on the left hand of the hearth, he 

saw, 
The mother glancing often toward the 

babe, 
But turning now and then to speak with 

him, 
Her son, who stood beside her tall and 

strong." 
— Enoch Arden: Lord Alfred Tennyson. 

- "She came to the village church, 
P 1 ^ And sat by a pillar alone ; 
vote, n an Aching an urn 

PREVIO . oarvo^. 1 iuN. 

When any question is before the house 
any member may move that the question 
(called the main question) be now put, or 
as it is usually called, may move the pre- 
vious question. 

If it pass in the affirmative, then the 
main question is to be put immediately, 
and no further debate, is admitted. 

The previous question being moved and 



"Fair was she to behold, this maiden of 
seventeen summers. 
Black were her eyes as the berry that 
grows on the thorn by the way-side, 
Black, yet how softly they gleamed be- 
neath the brown shade of her 
tresses !" 
— Evangeline: Henry W. Longfellow. 

"On the pallet before her was stretched the 
form of an old man ; 
Long, and thin, and gray were the locks 
that shaded his temples ; 
****** 

"Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, 

kneeling beside him, 
Kissed his dying lips, and laid her head 

on his bosom." 
— Evangeline: Henry W. Longfellow. 

"Zekle crep' up, quite unbeknown, 
And peeked in thru the winder, 
And there sot Huldy all alone, 
'Ith no one nigh to hender. 
****** 

He stood a spell on one foot fust, 
Then stood a spell on t'other, 

****** 

'An — wal, he up and kist her." 
— Bigelow Papers: James Russell Lo- 
well. 



POEMS SUITABLE FOR LITERARY 
ATRICALS. 



THE- 



"Betsey and I Are Out," and "How Bet- 
sey and I Made Up." — Will Oarleton. 

"Gone With a Handsomer Man." — Will 
Carleton. 

"Paul's Run Off With The Show."— Will 
Carleton. 

"The Christmas Baby."— Will Carleton. 

"Johnnv Rich."— Will Carleton. 
n "Over The Hills To The Poor House.."— 
pr Will Carleton. 
mi 'The New Church Organ."— Will Carle- 

^ ion. 
andHow Jamie Came Home." — Will Carle- 
cou ton. 

P or Bitter Sweet." — John G. Holland. 
S01T Quecn Mary." — Lord Alfred Tennyson. 
sair Harold." — Lord Alfred Tennyson. 



GRADUATING ESSAYS AND ORATIONS. 



253 



"A Mid-Summer Night's Dream."— Wil- 
liam Shakespeare. 
"Hamlet." — William Shakespeare. 
"Enoch Arden." — Lord Alfred Tennyson. 



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STJBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION. 

Does Argument Keally Convince? 

Will Man Ever Discover the Secret 
of Elying ? 

Should the Government Own the 
Telegraph and Railroads ? 

Was Napoleon's Career More Won- 
derful than Alexander's ? 

Is Eire More Destructive Than 
Water ? 

Is War Necessary in this Age of 
Arbitration ? 

Is Protective Tariff an Aid to any 
Country ? 

Does Civil Service Reform Create a 
Clerical Aristocracy ? 

Are Great Combinations of Capital 
an Evil to the Country ? 

Is Indiscriminate Charity Helpful to 
Mankind ? 

Is it Practicable to Always Live Up 
to the Monroe Doctrine. ? 

Are Labor Unions Practical ? 

Which Are Producers and Which 
Consumers ? 

Will An Educated Country Hold Su- 
premacy Over Those Less En- 
dowed ? 

Is Republican the Best Eorm of Gov- 
ernment ? 

•Should Women be Allowed the Right 
of Eranchise ? 

Should Colleges be Non-Sectarian ? 

Is the Pen Greater than the Sword ? 

How Should Rich Men Dispose of 
Their Wealth in their Wills ? 

Are Women Less Brave than Men ? 

-How Ear Should Labor Unions Go in 
Negotiating With Employers ? 

■Is Education the Defense of a Na- 
tion? 

■Is America as Patriotic to-day as a 
Century Ago? 

-Does Environment Always Make 
Men? 



25 — Do Circumstances Make. Men ? 

26 — Are English Men of Letters Superior 

to Those of America ? 
27 — Do the Dictates of Fashion Injure 

Health i 
28 — Was Longfellow America's Greatest 

Poet? 



SUBJECTS TOR GRADUATING ESSAYS, 
ORATIONS AND THEMES. 

POLITICAL. 

Spirit of Reform. 

American Unity. 

Progress of Our Country. 

Expansion. 

America's Economic Supremacy. 

Heroes of Achievement. 

The Land of the Dollar. 

Great Einancial Combinations. 

Labor. 

Capital. 

A Century of Achievement. 

Twentieth Century Problems. 

Einancial Panics. 

The Passion for Wealth. 

Wall Street— Its Effects on Our Nation. 

The Building of Our Nation. 

Practical Politics. 

HISTOEICAL. 

The American Indian. 

Liberty ! 

Conquest of Peru. 

We— The People. 

America's Achievements. 

The Hellene of the Past. 

America's Heroes. 

Cleopatra. 

Victory Through Defeat. 

Progress of Inventions. 

True Greatness. 

Daniel Webster. 

Abraham Lincoln. 

Queen Victoria. 

A Century of Progress. 

The World's Great Generals. 

The Pilgrims. 

Early Colonists. 

Our Elag. 

Progress in Civilization. 



254 



BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS. 



POETICAL. 

Aim At The Stars. 

Drifting — Whither % 

Music — Sweet Nature's Balm. 

Life's Golden Milestone. 

Room At The Top. 

The Harvest— What? 

Footsteps Echo Through the Corridors of 

Time. 
Realities, Not Dreams. 
Whither Bound. 

One Flower Does Not Make a Garland. 
"We Build the Ladder by Which We 

Rise." 
"Life is Real, Life is Earnest." 
Fallen Stars. 
The Power of Music. 
Music, Sweet Nature's Balm. 
No Cross, No Crown. 
The Four Leaf Clover. 
Why? 
To The Stars Through Difficulties. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Breast-Plate of Self Respect. 

We Can Make This Age Our Friend. 

Leaks In Mental Reservoirs. 

True Nobility. 

Example and Precept. 

Benefits of a Good Education. 

Danger of Being Side-Tracked. 

The High School of Experience. 

Results of Perseverance. 

Self-Reliance. 

Success — How Won. 

What is Success ? 

Success — Our Watchword. 

Justice. 

Perseverance the Price of Victory. 

Education — The Defense of a Nation. 

Possibilities. 

Little by Little. 

Latent Powers. 

Concentration. 

Hope and Memory. 

Tact and Talent. 

Silent Influences. 

Proper Use of Our Faculties. 

The March of Mind. 

Common-Sense. 



Everyday Duties and Responsibilities. 

The Blessings of Adversity. 

Wanted ! — Practical Men ! 

Get Ready for the Place Above You. 

Knowledge; Temper; Time. 

Prune Your Possibilities. 

The Mettle That Wins. 

Lost Opportunities. 

The Ministry of Failure. 

The Most Successful Man. 

Heroes of Achievement. 



BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS GLEANED 
FROM MANY SOURCES. 

lOR the soul that gives is the soul that 
|$sS lives ; 
And bearing another's load 
Doth lighten your own, and shorten the 
way 
And brighten the homeward road. 

— Washington Gladden. 

The kindly words that rise within the 

heart, 
And thrill it with their sympathetic 

tone, 

But die ere spoken, fail to play their part, 

And claim a merit that is not their own. 
***** 

Unspoken words, like treasures in the 
mine, 
Are valueless until we give them birth ; 
Like unfound gold, their hidden beauties 
shine, 
Which God has made to bless and gild 
the earth. 

— John Boyle O'Reilly. 

Ye who have scorned each other, 
Or injured friend or brother, 

In this fast-fading year ; 
Ye who by word or deed 
Have made a kind heart bleed, 

Come, gather here ! 
Let sinned against and sinning 
Forget their strife's beginning, 

And join in friendship now ; 
Be links no longer broken, 
Be sweet forgiveness spoken, 

Under the holly bowgh. 

— Charles Mackey. 



BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS. 



Take joy home, 
And make a place in thy great heart for 

her, 
And give her time to grow, and cherish 

her; 
Then will she come and oft will sing to 

thee, 
When thou art working in the furrows; 

ay, 

Or weeding in the sacred hour of dawn. 
It is a comely fashion to be glad : 
Joy is the grace we say to God. 

There is a rest remaining. Hast thou 
sinned ? 

There is a sacrifice. Lift up thy head ; 

The lovely world and the over-world alike 

Ring with a sonz eterne, a happ rede : 
"Thy Father loves thee." 

— Jean Ingelow. 

It's no in titles nor in rank ; 

It's no in wealth like Lon'on Bank, 

To purchase peace and rest ; 
It's no in making muckle mair, 
It's no in books, it's no in lear, 

To make us truly blest ; 
If happiness hae not her seat 

And centre in the breast, 
We may be wise, or rich, or great, 

But never can be blest ! 

— Robert Burns. 

Ah ! let us hope that to our praise 

Good God not only reckons 
The moments when we, tread His ways, 

But when the spirit beckons — 
That some slight good is also wrought 

Beyond self-satisfaction, 
When we are simply good in thought, 

Howe'er we fail in action. 

r ames Russell Lowell. 



Nothing is fair or good alone. 

I thought the sparrow's note from Heaven, 

Singing at dawn on the alder-bough; 

I brought him home, in his nest, at even ; 

He sings the song, but it cheers not now, 

For I did not bring home the river and 

sky; 
He sang to my ear — they sang to my eye. 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson. 



All other knowledge is hurtful to him 
who has not honesty and good nature. — 
Montaigne. 

Honor is a good brooch to wear in a 
man's hat at all times. — Ben Jonson. 

Honor and shame from no condition rise; 
Act well your part ; there all the honor lies. 
— Alexander Pope. 

Let honor be to us as strong an obliga- 
tion as necessity is to others. — Pliny. 

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we 

roam, 
His first, best country ever is at home. 
— Oliver Goldsmith. 

Lands mortgaged may return, and more 
esteemed, 

But honesty once, pawned, is ne'er re- 
deemed. — Thomas Middleton. 

A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod ; 
An honest man's the noblest work of God. 
— Alexander Pope. 

Many delight more in giving of presents 
than in paying their debts. — Sir P. Syd- 
ney. 

The more honesty a man has, the less 
he affects the air of a saint. — Lavater. 

The hardest trial of the heart is whether 
it can bear a rival's failure without tri- 
umph. — Aikin. 

History makes us some amends for the 
shortness of life. — Shilton. 

History maketh a young man to be old, 
without either wrinkles or grey hairs, 
privileging him with the experience of age, 
without either the infirmities or incon- 
veniences thereof. — Bishop Fuller. 

What is public history but a register of 
the successes and disappointments, the 
vices, the follies, and the quarrels of those 
who engage in the contention for power. — 
Paley. 

You traverse the world in search of hap- 
piness which is within the reach of every 
man ; a contented mind confers it on all. — 
Horace. 



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Health is the greatest of all possessions, 
and 'tis a maxim with me, that a hale cob- 
bler is a better man than a sick king. — 
Bickerstaff. 

Be sober and temperate and you will be 
happy. — Ben Franklin. 

Happiness is in the taste and not in 
the things themselves ; we are happy from 
possessing what we like, not from posses- 
sing what others like. — La Rochefoucauld. 

He that upon a true principle lives, 
without any disquiet of thought, may be 
said to be happy. — L f Estrange. 

Happiness and misery are the names of 
two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof 
we know not. — Samuel Locke. 

There is this difference between happi- 
ness and wisdom; he that thinks himself 
the happiest man really is so ; but he that 
thinks himself the wisest, is generally the 
greatest fool. — Colt on. 

All habits gather by unseen degrees 
As brooks -make rivers, rivers run to seas. 
— John Dry den. 

The diminutive chains of habit are sel- 
dom heavy enough to be felt until they are 
too strong to be broken. — Ben Jonson. 

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in 
a closet. Habits are formed by acts of 
reason in persevering struggle through 
temptation. — Gilpin. 

It is a kind of happiness to know to what 
extent we may be unhappy. — La Roche- 
foucauld. 

Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 
'Tis nowhere to be. found, or everywhere. 
— Alexander Pope. 

He who puts on guilt must cast off 
shame. — J. Hill. 

It is almost as difficult to make a man 
unlearn his errors as his knowledge. — 
Colton. 
Know then this truth, enough for man to 

know 
Virtue alone is happiness below. 

— Alexander Pope. 



Nature has granted to all to be happy, 
if we did but know how to use his bene- 
fits. — Claudian, 

True happiness, if understood, 
Consists alone in doing good. 

— Thomson. 
No man is blest by accident or guess ; 
True wisdom is the price, of happiness. 

— Young. 

He who has health has hope, and he who 
has hope has everything. — Arabian 
Proverb. 

How easy it is for one benevolent being 
to diffuse pleasure around him ; and how 
truly is a kind heart a fountain of glad- 
ness, making everything in its vicinity 
freshen into smiles. — Washington Irving. 

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its 
greatest countenance in its lowest estate. — 
Sir P. Sidney. 

Haste and rashness are storms and tem- 
pests, breaking and wrecking business ; but 
nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it 
with speed to heaven. — Fuller. 

People who are always taking care of 
their health are like misers who are hoard- 
ing a treasure which they have never spirit 
enough to enjoy. — Sterne. 

Habits will reconcile us to everything 
but change, and even to change if it recur 
not too quickly. — Ibid. 

To be perpetually longing and impa- 
tiently desirous of anything, so that a man 
cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's 
liberty, and to become a servant of meat 
and drink, or smoke. — Jeremy Taylor. 

Habit with him was all the test of truth, 
It must be right: I've done it from my 
youth. — Crabbe. 

Every one can master a grief but he that 
has it. — Wm. Shakespeare. 

Every man should bear his own griev- 
ances and inconveniences, rather than de- 
tract from or abridge the comforts of 
another. — Cicero. 

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people who complain from a mere habit 
of complaining. — Groves. 

He. is most free from dangers who, even 
when safe, is upon his guard. It is better 
to be always upon your guard than to suf- 
fer once. — Latin Proverb. 

He who receives a good turn should 
never forget it; he who does one. should 
never remember it. — Charron. 

He is the free man whom the truth 
makes free. — William Coivper. 

The greatest glory of a free-born people 
Is to transmit that freedom to their chil- 
dren. — Havard. 

He that has no friend and no enemy 
is one. of the vulgar, and without talents, 
power, or energy. — Lavater. 

Friends are much better tried in bad 
fortune than in good. — Aristotle, 

Old friends are best. King James used 
to call for his old shoes ; they were easiest 
to his feet. — John Selden. 

When fortune means to men most good 
She looks upon them with a threatening 
eye. — Wm. Shakespeare. 

But better far it is to speak 

One simple word, which now and then 
Shall waken their free nature in the weak 

And friendless sons of men. 

— James Russell Lowell. 

Sympathy is especially a Christian's 
duty. — Chas. Spurgeon. 

We often do more good by our sympathy 
than by our labors. — Canon Farrar. 

I hold that Christian grace abounds 
Where Charity is seen ; that when 
We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds 
. Of love to men. 

— "My Creed:" Alice Gary. 

Indeed, I almost doubt whether the head 
of a family does not do more mischief if 
he is unsympathetic than even if he were 
unjust. — Arthur Helps. 



Sometimes, just to have one's mood 

Comprehended is relief : 
Simply to be understood 
In one's sorrow is a good 

That avails to soften grief. 

— Mary E. Bradley. 

Is thy burden hard and heavy ? 

Do thy steps drag wearily ? 
Help to bear thy brother's burden, 

God will bear both it and thee. 

The secrets of life are not shown except 
to sympathy and likeness. — Ralph Waldo 
Emerson. 

Can't we stop to give just a kindly smile ? 

Or a kinder word or so ? 
Or only one glance of sympathy 

Which might to some sad heart go ? 

The heart that goes out of itself gets 
large and full of joy. This is the great 
secret of the inner life. — Horace Mann. 

It costs so little ! I wonder why 

We give it so little thought ! 
A smile — kind words — a glance — a touch ! 

What magic with them is wrought ! 

Strength for to-day is all that we need, 
As there will never be a to-morrow ; 

For to-morrow will prove but another to- 
day, 
With its measure of joy and sorrow. 

We get back our mete as we measure, 
We cannot do wrong and feel right ; 

Nor can we give pain and get pleasure, 
For justice avenges each slight. 

— Alice Cary. 

It may pass for a maxim in State, that 
the administration cannot be placed in too 
few hands, nor the legislation m too many. 
— Dean Swift. 

Though a soldier in time of peace is 
like a chimney in the summer, yet what 
w T ise man would pluck down his chimney 
because his almanac tells him 'tis middle 
of June ? — Tom Brown. 

We are more taxed by our idleness, pride 
and folly than we are taxed by govern- 
ment. — Benjamin Franklin. 



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Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude 
in a poor man I take it for granted there 
would he as much generosity if he were a 
rich man. — Alexander Pope. 

It is better for a city to be governed by 
a good man than by good laws. — Aristotle. 

They that govern most make the least 

noise. — Selden. 

Power is detested and miserable in the 
life of him who wishes rather to be feared 
than to be loved. — Nepos. 

For forms of government let fools contest ; 
Whate'er is best administered is best. 
— Alexander Pope. 

All government, indeed every human 
benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and 
every prudent act, is founded on com- 
promise and barter. — Burke. 

Virtue itself often offends when coupled 
with bad manners. — Middleton. 

Happy were men if they but understood 
There is no safety but in doing good. 

— John Fontain. 

Virtue is bold and goodness never fear- 
ful. — Wm. Shakespeare. 

Genius is the highest type of reason — 
talent the highest type of the understand- 
ing. — Hickok. 

How weak a thing is gentility, if it 
wants virtue. — Bishop Fuller. 

Education begins the gentleman, but 
reading, good company and reflection must 
finish him. — John Locke. 

The manner of giving shows the char- 
acter of the giver, more than the gift it- 
self. — Lavater. 

Our greatest glory consists not in never 
falling, but in rising every time we fall. — 
Goldsmith. 

The truly generous is the truly wise ; 
And he who loves not others, lives unblest. 

— Horace. 

Time, place and action, may with pains be 
wrought, 



But genius must be born, and never can be 
taught. — John Dryden. 

Men of 'genius are often dull and inert 
in society, as a blazing meteor when it 
descends to earth, is only a stone. — Henry 
Wadsworth Longfellow. 

When a true genius appears m the 
world you may know him by this sign, 
that the dunces are all in confederation 
against him. — Dean Swift. 

Friendship improves happiness, and 
abates misery, by the doubling of our joy, 
and the dividing of our grief. — Cicero. 

Friendship is a strong and habitual in- 
clination of two persons to promote the 
good and happiness of each other. — 
Thomas Addison. 

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, 
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. 
— Thomas Addison. 

Frugality is founded upon the principle 
that all riches have limits. — Burke. 

By gaming we lose both our time and 
treasure ; two things most precious to the 
life of man. — Feltham. 



CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS. 

^3 I1STCE the observance of authors' 
\^ birthdays has become universal a 
demand has been created for classified 
matter along this particular line of school 
work. Quotations from the works of the 
various authors so honored form no small 
part of the exercises. We therefore pre- 
sent the following carefully compiled ex- 
tracts, together with name of the selection 
from which they are quoted. 

These quotations not only include the 
works of poets and writers of past ages, 
but also those of the younger writers of the 
day. 

Additional extracts will be found in the 
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Special Day Programmes. These include 
Burns, Field, Carleton, Holmes, Irving, 
Longfellow, Lowell, Riley, Whittier, Ten- 
nyson, Cary, Bryant and Kipling. Also 
suitable extracts for Bird, Flower, Memo- 
rial, Spring, Mid-Summer, Mid-Winter, 
Autumn, Thanksgiving and Christmas 
Day observances. 



QUOTATIONS FROM ELLA WHEELER 
WILCOX. 

fRUST in thine own untried ca- 
pacity, 
As thou wouldst trust in God him- 
self ; 
Thy soul 

Is but one emanation from the whole. 
Thou dost not dream what forces lie in 
thee." — Achievement. 

"Love does not grow on every tree, 

Nor true hearts* yearly bloom. 
Alas for those who only see 

This truth across a tomb. 
But, soon or late, the fact grows plain 

To all through sorrow's test — 
The only folks who give us pain 

Are those we love the best." 

— Life's Scars. 

"Earth is one chamber of heaven ; 

Death is no grander than birth ; 
Joy was the life that was given, 

Strive for perfection on earth." 

— Here and Now. 

"Between the cradle and the tomb 
Two roadways lead along. 
Oft side by side they seem to glide — 
The Right Road, and the Wrong." 
— Two Roads. 

a Do you know what moves the tides, 

As they swing from low to high ? 

'Tis the love, love, love, 

Of the moon within the sky. 

Oh, they follow where she guides, 

Do the faithful-hearted tides." 

—The Secret. 



"Have you heard of the terrible family 

'They' \ 
And the dreadful, venomous things 'They' 

say \ 
Why, half the gossip under the sun, 
If you trace it back, you will find begun 
In that wretched House of 'They'." 

—"They Say/' 

"If all the troubles in the world 
Were traced back to the start, 
We'd find not one in ten began 
From want of willing heart." 

— "/ Didn't Think" 

"I prayed for a contented mind. At length 
Great light upon my darkened spirit 
burst, 
Great peace fell on me, also, and great 
strength ; 
Oh ! had that prayer been first !" 

— Answered Prayers. 

"Where have they gone, the good little 

girls, 
With natural manners and natural curls, 
Who love their dollies and like their toys, 
And talk of something beside the boys ?" 

— The Quest. 

"We want no kings but kings of toil — 
No crowns but crowns of deeds ; 

Not royal birth but sterling worth 
Must mark the man who leads." 
— The Man Who Leads. 

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you ; 

W T eep, and you weep alone ; 
For this brave old earth must borrow its 
mirth ; 
It has trouble enough of its own." 
— Laugh and the World Laughs. 

"Aim well ! 

No time is lost by care ; 
Haste fails. Beware ! Beware ! 
A true aim wins, then dare 
Make each aim tell." 

— Aim Well. 



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"There is no time to waste, 

If you have any seed of good for sowing, 

Yon must, you must make haste." 

— The Seed Time. 

"Do not look for the flaws as you go 
through life, 
And even when you find them 
It's wise and kind to be somewhat blind, 
And look for the virtue behind them." 

— Charity. 

"It is easy enough to be pleasant 
While life flows by like a song, 
But the man worth while is the one who 
will smile 
When everything goes wrong. 
For the test of the heart is trouble, 

And it always comes with the years ; 
And the smile that is worth the praises of 
earth 
Is the smile that shines through tears." 
—Life's Test. 

"Love is enough. Let us not seek for gold, 
Wealth breeds false aims, and pride and 
selfishness ; 
In those serene Arcadian days of old 
Men gave no thought to princely homes 
and dress. 
The gods who dwelt in fair Olympia's 

height 
Lived only for dear love and love's de- 
light; 
Love is enough." 

— Love Is Enough. 

"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough 
Without your woes. No path is wholly 

rough ; 
Look for the places that are smooth and 

clear, 
And speak of those to rest the weary ear 
Of earth. ' — Speech. 

"Build upon resolve, and not upon regret, 
The structure of thy future. Do not grope 
Among the shadows of old sins, but let 
Thine own soul's light shine on the path 
of hone 



And dissipate the darkness. Waste no 

tears 
Upon the blotted record of lost years, 
But turn the leaf and smile, oh, smile, to 

see 
The fair white pages that remain to thee." 

— Resolve. 

"Every man likes to be loved ardently, 
but he wants all other men to think of his 
wife as a human icicle." — A Mans Ideal. 

"Not since the first dim dawn of life 

began 
On this small sphere has peace reigned for 

an hour." — Battles. 



QUOTATIONS FROM MARGARET E. 
SANGSTER. 

fF WHEN the old year glides away, 
A weary wraith in the snow and 
the cold, 
We could begin on the New Year's Day 
A clean new life and could drop the 
old- 
Old sins, old shames, old thrusts of pain. 
And the myriad things God only knows, 
And into the sweet year, clear of stain, 
Could step with the freedom of full 
repose, 
What blessings untold would to us be 



given 



Scarce in our hearts would be room for 
heaven !" 

-if- 

"We take our share of fretting, 

Of grieving and forgetting; 

The paths are often rough and steep, and 

heedless feet may fall, 
But yet the days are cheery, 
And night brings rest when weary, 
And somehow this old planet is a good 

place after all." 

—After All. 

"The sacred vows are pledged, the rite is 
o'er, two lives are one ; 



CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS. 



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The golden years stretch onward hence — 
what reek they, shade or sun? 

These happy hearts — God keep them, and 
grant that from this hour 

No evil thing or deadly may on their lives 
have power." 

— A Wedding. 

"Give us the cup of thy wine to. taste, 
O wind of the South, so strong and 
fleet! 
Never a drop of its joy to waste, 

In the days of the Springtime, coy and 
sweet." 

— The South Wind. 

"If mother would listen to me, dears, 

She'd buy her a gown of silk, 
With buttons of royal velvet, 

And ruffles as white as milk ; 
And she'd let you do the trotting, 

While she sat still in her chair. 
That mother should have it hard all 
through 

It strikes me, isn't fair." 

— If Mother Would Listen. 

" 'Tis splendid to live so grandly, 

That, long after you are gone, 
The things you did are remembered 

And recounted under the sun ; 
To live so bravely and purely 

That a nation stops on its way, 
And once a year, with banner and drum, 

Keep the thoughts of your natal day." 
— Washington s Birthday. 

"I wonder if you have seen him, too, 

This boy, who is not too big 
For a morning kiss from Mother and Sis, 

Who isn't a bit of a prig." 

— A Little Gentleman. 

"For peace and plenty, for freedom, for 

rest, 
For joy in the land from the east to the 

west, 
For the dear starry flag, with its red, 

white and blue, 



We thank Thee from hearts that are hon- 
est and true." 

— We Thanh Thee. 

It isn't the thing you do, dear, 
It's the thing you leave undone, 

That gives you a bit of heartache, 
At the setting of the sun." 

— Duties. 

"Comfort one another 
With the hand-clasp close and tender, 
With the sweetness love can render, 
And the looks of friendly eyes. 
Do not wait with grace unspoken, 
While life's daily bread is broken — 
Gentle speech is oft like manna from the 
skies." 

— Comfort One Another. 

"If any little word of mine may make a 

life the brighter, 
If any little song of mine may make a 

heart the lighter, 
God help me speak the little word and 

make my bit of singing, 
And drop it in some lonely vale to set 

the echoes ringing." 

— Any Little Word of Mine. 



QUOTATIONS FROM WILLIAM SHAKE- 
SPEARE. 

IKE as waves make toward the peb- 
bled shore, 
So do our minutes hasten to their end ; 
Each changing place with that which goes 
before, 
In sequent toil all forwards to con- 
tend." 

— The Spoils of Time. 

"Be great in fact, as you have been in 
thought ; 

Let not the world see fear and sad dis- 
trust 

Govern the motion of a kingly eye." 

— Exhortation to Courage, 



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"To be, or not to be, tbat is the question, 
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer 
The slings and arrows of outrageous for- 
tune, 
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 
And, by opposing, end them." 

— Hamlet's Soliloquy. 

"The man that hath no music in himself, 
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet 

sounds, * 
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; 
The motions of his spirit are dull as night, 
And his affections dark as Erebus : 
Let no such man be trusted." 

— Merchant of Venice. 

"Who would fardels bear, 

To grunt and sweat under a weary life, 

But that the dread of something after 

death — 
The undiscovered country, from whose 

bourn 
No traveler returns — puzzles the will; 
And makes us rather bear those ills we 

have, 
Than fly to others that we know not of ! 
Thus conscience does make cowards of us 

all." 

— Hamlet's Soliloquy. 

"One good deed dying tongueless 
Strangles a thousand, waiting upon that." 
— Winter s Tale. 

"If to do were as easy as to know 
what were good to do, chapels had been 
churches, and poor men's cottages princes' 
palaces." 

— Merchant of Venice. 

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, 
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to for- 
tune; 
Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
Is bound in shallows and in miseries." 

T ulius Caesar. 



"Corruption wins not more than honesty. 
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace 



To silence envious tongues. Be just, and 

fear not ; 
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy 

country's, 
Thy God's, and truth's." 

—Henry VIII. 

"Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel 
just ; 

And he but naked, though locked up in 
steel, 

WTiose conscience with injustice is cor- 
rupted." 

— Henry VI. 

"Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine, 
It sends some precious instance of itself 
After the thing it loves." 

— Hamlet. 

"Good name in man and woman, dear my 

lord, 
Is the immediate jewel of their souls ; 
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis 

something, nothing; 
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave 

to thousands; 
But he that filches from ine my good 

name, 
Robs me of that which not enriches him, • 
And makes me poor indeed." 

— Othello. 

" 'Tis all men's office to speak patience 
To those that wring under the load of 

sorrow ; 
But no man's virtue, nor sufficiency, 
To be so moral, when he shall endure 
The like himself." 

— Much Ado About Nothing. 

"Sweet are the uses of adversity, 
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head." 

— Adversity. 

"I dare do all that may become a man, 
Who dares do more is none." 

— Courage. 



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"All the world's a stage, 
And all the men and women merely 
players." 

— Seven Ages of Men. 

"This is the state of man : To-day he puts 

forth 
The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow 

blossoms, 
And hears his blushing honors thick upon 

him; 
The third day comes a frost, a killing 

frost, 
And, when he thinks, good, easy man, full 

surely 
His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, 
And then he falls." 

— The Vicissitudes of Life. 

"She loved me for the dangers I had 

pass'd ; 
And I loved her, that she did pity them." 

— Othello. 

"I charge thee, fling away ambition ; 

By that sin fell the angels ; how can man, 

then, 
The image of his Maker, hope to win by 't ? 
Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts 

that hate thee." 

— Fall of Cardinal Wolsey. 

"To thine own self be true ; 
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man." 
— Counsel to a Friend. 



QUOTATIONS FROM JEAN INGELOW. 

(^Sjfep) HEX our thoughts are born, 

I Vfl f Though they may be good and 

humble, one should mind 
How they are reared, or some will go 

astray 
And shame their mother." 

— Gladys and Her Island. 

"Crowds of bees are giddy with clover, 
Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, 



Crowds of larks at their matins hang over 
Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet !" 

— Divided. 

"Heigh ho ! daisies and buttercups, 

Fair yellow daffodils, stately and tall ! 
A sunshiny world full of laughter and 
leisure, 
And fresh hearts unconscious of sorrow 
and thrall ! 
Send down on their pleasure smiles pass- 
ing in measure, 
God that is over us all." 

— Songs of Seven. 

"Tears are the showers that fertilize this 

world, 
And memory of things precious keepeth 

warm 
The heart that once did hold them." 

— Regret. 

"They sang, and would not stop, 
While drop, and drop, and drop, 
I heard the melted rime in sunshine fall ; 
And narrow, wandering rills, 
Where leaned the daffodils, 
Murmured and murmured on, and that 
was all." 

— A Reverie. 

"I sat and spun within my doore, 

My thread brake off, I raised myne 
eyes; 
The level sun, like ruddy ore, 

Lay sinking in the barren skies, 
And dark against day's golden death 

She moved where Lindis wandereth, 
My Sonne's fair wife, Elizabeth." 

— The Brides of Enderhy. 

"Poor bells! I forgive you; your good 
days are over, 
And mine, they are yet to be ; 
No listening, no longing shall aught, 
aught discover; 
You leave the story to me." 

— Romance. 



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CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS. 



"Hush, nightingale, hush ! sweet night- 
ingale, wait 
Till I listen and hear 
If a step draweth near, 
For my love he is late." 

— Love, 

"To hear, to heed, to wed, 

Fair lot that maidens choose, 

Thy mother's tenderest words are said, 
Thy face no more she views." 

— Given in Marriage. 

"I pray you hear my song of a boat, 

For it is but short: 
My boat you shall find none fairer afloat, 

In river or port; 
Long I looked out for the lad she bore, 

On the open, desolate sea, 
And I think he sailed to the heavenly 
shore, 

For he came not back to me — 

Ah, me!" 

-A Song of a Boat. 

"I had a nestful once of my own, 

Ah, happy, happy I ! 
Right dearly I loved them ; but when they 
were grown 

They spread out their wings to fly. 
Ah, one after one they flew away, 

Far up to the heavenly blue, 
To the better country, the upper day ; 

And — I wish I was going, too." 

— A Song of a Nest. 

"I lift mine eyes, and what to see, 
But a world happy and fair; 

I have not wished it to mourn with me, 
Comfort is not there." 

— Widowhood. 

"You Moon ! have you done something 
wrong in heaven, 
That God has hidden your face? 
I hope, if you have, you will soon be for- 
given, 
And shine again in your place." 

— -Songs of Seven. 



"Far better in its place the lowliest bird 
Should sing aright to Him the lowliest 
song, 
Than that a seraph strayed should take 
the word 
And sing his glory wrong." 

— The Better Way. 



QUOTATIONS FROM JOHN MILTON. 

1 ' OW came still Evening on, and 
Twilight gray 
Had in her sober livery all things clad." 

— Evening. 

"Hail, universal Lord ! be bounteous still 
To give us only good ; and if the night 
Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed, 
Disperse it as now light dispels the dark." 
— Morning Hymn of Adam and Eve. 

"The childhood shows the man, 
As morning shows the day." - 

— Paradise Regained. 

"A good book is the precious life-blood 
of a master spirit, embalmed and treas- 
ured up on purpose to a life beyond life." 
— Areopagitica. 

"O unexpected stroke; worse than of 

death 
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus 

leave 
Thee, native soil ? These happy walks and 

shades, 
Fit haunt of gods ?" 

— Expulsion from Paradise. 

"God doth not need 

Either man's work, or his own gifts ; who 

best 
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best; l 

his state 
Is kingly ; thousands at his bidding speed, 
And post o'er land and ocean without rest ; 
They also serve who only stand and wait." 
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"God attributes to place 

Xo sanctity, if none be thither brought 
By men who there frequent." 

— Paradise Lost. ' 

"The world was all before them, where to 

choose 
Their place of rest, and Providence their 



guide." 



— Paradise Lost. 



"I call, therefore, a complete and gen- 
erous education, that which fits a man to 
perform justly, skilfully and magnani- 
mously, all the offices, both private and 
public, of peace and war." 

— Education. 

"Mortals, that would follow me, 
Love Virtue, she alone is free ; 
She can teach ye how to climb 
Higher than the sphery chime ; 
Or, if Virtue feeble were, 
Heaven itself would stoop to hei." 

— Comus. 

"Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt; 

Surprised by unjust force, but not in- 
thralled ; 

Yea, even that which mischief meant most 
harm 

Shall in the happy trial prove most 
glory." 

— Supremacy of Virtue. 

"Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers 
rise, 
Of shades, and wanton winds, and gush- 
ing brooks, 
On whose fresh lap the swart-star spare- 
ly looks; 
Throw hither all your quaint enameled 
eyes, 
That on the green turf suck the honeyed 

showers, 
And purple all the ground with vernal 
flowers." 

— Flowers. 



"Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven 
first-born !" 

— Hail, Holy Light. 

"A good book is the precious life-blood 
of a master-spirit embalmed and treas- 
ured up on purpose to a life beyond." 

— Books. 

"Give me liberty to know, to think, to 
believe, and to utter freely according to 
conscience, above all other liberties." 

— Education. 

"He that reigns within himself, and 
rules passions, desires and fears, is more 
than a king." 

— True Nobility. 

"There are no songs to be compared 
with the songs of Zion, no orations equal 
to those of the prophets, no politics like 
those which the Scripture teaches." 

— The Bible as a Classic. 

"Truth is as impossible to be soiled by 
any outward touch as the sunbeam." 

—Truth. 



QUOTATIONS FROM SIR WALTER SCOTT. 



WAXDERIXG 
and poor, 



harper, scorned 



He begged his bread from door to door, 
And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, 
The harp a king had loved to hear." 

— Lay of the Last Minstrel. 

"Oh, many a shaft at random sent, 
Finds mark the archer little meant ; 
And many a word, at random spoken, 
May soothe or wound a heart that's 
broken." 

— Lord of the Isles. 

"'Oh, what a tangled web we weave, 
When first we practice to deceive." 

— Marmion, 



266 



CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS. 



"Breathes there a man with soul so dead, 
Who never to himself hath said, 
This is my own, my native land ! 
Whose heart hath ne'er within him 

burned, 
As home his footsteps he hath turned 
From wandering on a foreign strand !" 
— Lay of the Last Minstrel. 

"Some feelings are to mortals given 

With less of earth in them than heaven; 

And if there be a human tear 

From passion's dross refined and clear, 

A tear so limpid and so meek, 

It would not stain an angel's cheek, 

'Tis that which pious fathers shed 

Upon a duteous daughter's head !" 

— The Lady of the Lake. 

O Minstrel Harp, still must thine accents 
sleep ? 
Mid rustling leaves and fountains mur- 
muring ; 
Still must thy sweeter sounds thy silence 
keep, 
Nor bid a warrior smile, nor teach a 
maid to weep ?" 

— Harp of the North. 

"0 Young Lochinvar has come out of the 

West! 
Through all the wide border his steed was 

the best; 
And save his good broadsword he weapons 

had none — 
He rode all unarmed and he rode all alone. 
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in 

war, 
There never was knight like the young 

Lochinvar." 

— Lochinvar s Ride. 

"The deeds of our sires if our bards 

should rehearse 
Let a blush or a blow be the meed of their 

verse ! 
Be mute every string, and be hushed 

every tone, 
That shall bid us remember the fame that 

is flown." 
- — Tli (re's a M isl on (lie Mouiitain, 



"Now all whom varied toil and care 
From home and love divide, 

In the calm sunset may repair 
Each to the loved one's side." 

— Evening. 

"Soldier, rest ! thy warfare o'er, 

Sleep the sleep that knows no breaking; 

Dream of battlefields no more, 

Days of Danger, nights of waking." 

— Song. 

If on life's uncertain main 

Mishap shall mar thy sail; 
If faithful, wise, and brave in vain, 
Woe, want and exile thou sustain 
Beneath the fickle gale; 

Waste not a sigh on fortune changed, 
On thankless courts, or friends es- 
tranged, 
But come where kindred worth shall 

smile, 
To greet thee in the lonely isle." 

— Lady of the Lake. 

"The autumn winds rushing 
Waft the leaves that are searest, 

But our flower was in flushing, 
When blighting was nearest." 

— Coronach. 

The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, 
And hope is brightest when it dawns, 
from fears; 
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning 
dew, 
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in 
tears." 

— The Prophecy. 

"All Nature's children feel the matin 

spring 
Of life reviving, with reviving day." 

— The Island. 

"Call it not vain; they do not err, 
Who say that when the poet dies, 

Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, 
And celebrates his obsequies." 

—The Poet, 



CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS. 






"For, well-a-day! their date was fled; 
His tuneful brethren all were dead ; 
And he, neglectful and oppressed, 
Wished to be with them, and at rest." 
— Lay of the Last Minstrel. 

"By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, 
Though none should guide my feeble way ; 
Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, 
Although it chill my withered cheek ; 
Still lay my head by Teviot stone, 
Though there, forgotten and alone, 
The bard may draw his parting groan." 
— Love of Country. 



QUOTATIONS FROM JOSIAH GILBERT 
HOLLAND. 

HERE'S a song in the air! 
There's a star in the sky ! 
There's a mother's deep prayer 

And a baby's low cry ! 
And the star rains its fire while the beau- 
tiful sing, 
Eor the manner of Bethlehem cradles a 



king." 



-A Christmas Carol. 



"What is the little one thinking about ? 
Very wonderful things, no doubt ! 

Unwritten history 

Unfathomed mystery! 
Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and 

drinks, 
And chuckles and crows, and nods and 

winks, 
As if his head were as full of kinks 
And curious riddles as any sphinx." 

— Bitter-Sweet. 

"Evil is only the slave of Good ; 

Sorrow the servant of Joy ; 
And the soul is mad that refuses food 

Of the meanest in God's employ." 

— A Song of Faith. 

"Heaven is not reached by a single bound ; 
We build the ladder by which w 7 e rise, 



i the lowly earth 
skies, 
And we mount its 
round." 



o the vaulted 
summit round by 



— Gradatim. 



"Toward every brave and careless boy 
Whose lusty shout or call I hear, 

The boy within me springs with joy 
And rings an echo to his cheer." 

— A Glimpse of Youth. 

"Evil has won in the horrid feud 

Of ages with the throne ; 
Evil stands on the neck of Good, 

And rules the world alone." 

— A Song of Doubt. 

"The fountain of joy is fed by tears, 
And love is lit by the breath of sighs ; 

The deepest griefs and the wildest fears, 
Have holiest ministries." 

— A Song of Faith. 



"Woman will be pure if man will be 



true. 



—Gold-Foil. 



"Hearts, like apples, are hard and sour, 
Till crushed by Pain's resistless power ; 
And yield their juices rich and bland 
To none but Sorrow's heavy hand. 
The purest streams of human love 

Flow naturally never, 
But gush by pressure from above, 

With God's hand on the lever. 
The first are turbidest and meanest; 
The last are sweetest and serenest." 

— Bitter-Sweet. 

"We rise by things that are 'neath our 
feet; 
By what we have mastered of good or 

gain ; 
By the pride deposed and the passion 
slain ; 
And the vanquished ills that we hourly 



meet. 



■Gradatim, 



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CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS. 



"Not many friends my life has made ; 
Few have I loved, and few are they 

Who in my hand their hearts have laid ; 
And these were women. I am gray 
And never have I been betrayed." 

— Kathrina. 

"Why not accept all your misfortunes 
as the discipline of a paternal hand, in 
love prescribed, to lead you to your place, 
and whiten you for Christian service." 

— Affliction. 

"Thou art 
A voice from out the world's experience, 
Speaking of all the generations past 
To all the generations yet to come 
Of the long struggle, the sublime despair, 
The wild and weary agony of man I" 
— The Laocoon. 

"Thus it is over all the earth ' 
That which we call the fairest, 

And prize for its surpassing worth, 
Is always rarest." 

— Bitter-Sweet. 

"Hither, Sleep ! a mother wants thee ! 

Come with velvet arms ! 
Fold the baby that she grants thee 

To thy own soft charms ! 
Bear him into Dreamland lightly! 

Give him sight of flowers ! 
Do not bring him back till brightly 

Break the morning hours !" 

— Cradle Song. 

"Sleep, babe, the honeyed sleep of inno- 
cence ! 
Sleep like a bud ; for soon the sun of life 
With ardors quick and passionate shall 



rise 



And, with hot kisses, part the fragrant 

lips — 
The folded petals of thy soul !" 

— Bitter-Sweet. 

"The truth is, that no man can do an 
unmanly thing without inflicting an in- 
jury on the whole human race. Every sin 



shakes men's confidence in men, and be- 
comes, whatever its origin, the enemy of 
mankind.'' 

— Lessons in Life. 

"Wide is the gate and broad the way 

That opens to perdition, 
And countless multitudes are they 

Who seek admission." 

— Bitter-Sweet. 

"God be thanked that there are some in 
the world to whose hearts the barnacles 
will not cling." 

—Gold-Foil. 

"To be a man, if aught, is privilege 
Precious and peerless. While I bide con- 
tent 
The modest lot of woman, all my soul 
Gives truest manhood humblest reverence. 
It is a great and God-like thing to do ! 
'Tis a great thing, I think, to be a man." 

— Bitter-Sweet. 



QUOTATIONS FROM BAYARD TAYLOR. 

MA EAR girl, her name he dared not 
%$J speak 

But as the song grew louder, 
Something upon the soldier's cheek 
Washed off the stains of powder." 
— The Song of the Camp. 

"Only a woman knows a woman's need." 

— Lars. 

"In many a mountain fastness, 

By many a river's foam, 
And through the gorgeous cities, 

'Twas loneliness to roam ; 
For the sweetest music in my heart 

Was the olden songs of home." 

— The Wayside Dream. 



"The oriole weds his mottled mate, 

The lily's bride o' the bee ; 
Heaven's marriage ring is round the 
earth, 
Shall I wed thee?" 

— Proposal. 



CLA SSIFIED Q UO TA TI OXS. 



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"The pathway of the sinking moon 

Fades from the silent bay ; 
The mountain isles loom large and faint, 

Folded in shadows gray, 
And the lights of land are setting stars 

That soon will pass away." 

— On the Sea. 

" Sunshine, and hum of bees, and mur- 
mur of winds, and scent of flowers, came 
in through the open windows, and the 
bridal pair seemed to stand in the heart of 
the perfect springtime." 

— The Story of Kennett. 

"They sang of love, and not of fame ; 

Forgot was Britain's glory ; 
Each heart recalled a different name, 

But all sang ' Annie Laurie.' " 

— The Song of the Camp. 

"Give unrestrained the old emotion, 

The bliss that touched the verge of pain, 
The strength of Hate, Love's deep devo- 
tion, — 
Oh, give me back my youth again." 
— Give Me Back My Youth Again. 

"Sleep, soldiers ! still in honored rest, 
Your youth and valor wearing; 

The bravest are the tenderest, 
The loving are the daring." 

— The Song of the Camp. 

"No people can ever become truly great 
or free who are not virtuous. If the soul 
aspires for liberty — pure and perfect lib- 
erty — it also aspires for everything that is 
noble in truth, everything that is holy in 
virtue." 

— Views Afoot. 

"Fame is what you have taken, 
Character's what' you give ; 

When to this truth you awaken, 
Then you begin to live." 

— True Living. 

"Here bend Italian love and English pride 
Above her grave, — and one remoter land, 



Free as her pravers would make it, at their 
side." 

— Ca-sa Guidi Windows. 



"Another line upon thy ha^d I trace, 

All destinies above; 
Men know thee most as one that loves his 
race, 
And bless thee with their love." 
— A Friend's Greeting. (To J. G. Whit- 
tier on his Seventieth Birthday. ) 

"And Irish Borah's eyes are dim 
For a singer dumb and gory ; 

And English Mary mourns for him 
Who sang of 'Annie Laurie.' " 

— The Song of the Camp. 

"Nothing is useless that gratifies that 
perception of beauty which is at once the 
most delicate and most intense of our men- 
tal sensations, binding us by an uncon- 
scious link nearer to Nature and to Him 
whose every thought is born of Beauty, 
Truth and Love." 

— Views Afoot. 




QUOTATIONS FROM RALPH WALDO EM- 
ERSON. 

EEATHS for the May ! for happy 
Spring 

To-day shall all her dowry bring, 
The love of kind, the joy, the grace, 
Hymen of element and race, 
Knowing well to celebrate 
With song and hue and star and state, 
With tender light and youthful cheer, 
The spousals of the new-born year." 

— May-Day. 

"Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why 
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, 
Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for 

seeing, 
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." 
— The Rhodora. 



270 



CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS. 



"We live in a new and exceptional age, 
America is another word for Opportu- 
nity." 

— American Civilization. 

a Let us realize that this country, the 
last found, is the great charity of God to 
the human race." 

— The Fortune of the Republic. 

"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, 

So near is God to man, 
When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 

The youth replies, / can." 

— Voluntaries. 

"If you would be a man, speak what 
you think to-day in words as hard as can- 
non-balls, and to-morrow speak what to- 
morrow thinks in hard words again, 
though it contradict everything you said 
to-day." 

— Self -Reliance. 



"I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, 

At the sophist school and the learned clan ; 

For what are they all, in their high con- 
ceit, 

When man in the bush with God may 
meet ?" 

— Good-Bye. 

"All my hurts 

My garden spade can heal. A woodland 

walk, 
A quest of river-grapes, a mocking thrush, 
A wild-rose, a rock-loving columbine, 
Salve my worst wounds." 

— Mushetaquid. 

"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, 

Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, 
flere once the embattled farmers stood, 
And fired the shot heard round the 
world." 

— Concord Hymn. 

"Announced by all the trumpets of the 
sky, 



Arrives the snow; and, driving o'er the 
fields, 

Seems nowhere to alight; the whited air 

Hides hills and woods, the river and 
heaven, 

And veils the farm-house at the garden's 
end. 

The sled and traveler stopped, the cou- 
rier's feet 

Delayed, all friends shut out, the house- 
mates sit 

Around the radiant fireplace, inclosed 

In a tumultuous privacy of storm." 

— The Snowstorm. 

"There is always a best way of doing 
everything, if it be to boil an egg. Man- 
ners are the happy ways of doing things, 
each once a stroke of genius or of love — 
now repeated and hardened into usage. 
They form at last a rich varnish, with 
which the routine of life is washed and 
its details adorned." 

— Behavior. 

"Love is omnipresent in nature as mo- 
tive and reward. Love is our highest word 
and the synonym of God." 

— Love. 

"The passive master lent his hand 
To the vast soul that o'er him planned." 
— The Problem. 

"For blue of stream and blue of sky ; 
For pleasant shade of branches high ; 
For fragrant air and cooling breeze ; 
For beauty of the blooming trees, 
Father in heaven, we thank Thee." 
— Thanksgiving Hymn. 

"For a time our teachers serve us per- 
sonally as metres or milestones of prog- 
ress. Once they were angels of knowl- 
edge, and their figures touched the sky. 
Then we drew near, saw their means, cult- 
ture, and limits; and they yielded their 
places to other geniuses." 

— Uses of Great Men, 



CLASSIFIED QUOTATIOXS. 



271 



"He is great who is what he is from na- 
ture, and who never reminds us of others." 
— Representative Men. 

"Every act of man inscribes itself in 
the memories of his fellows, in his own 
manners and face." 

— Representative Men. 

"Our greatest glory consists not in 
never falling, but in rising every time we 
fall." 

— The Fortune of the Republic. 

"Character is higher than intellect. 
* * * A great soul will be strong to live, 
as well as to think." 

— Character. 

"Books are the best things well used; 
abused, among the worst." 

— Boohs. 

"Men are what their mothers make 
them." 

— Representative Men. 

"I beheld the river, like God's love, 
journeying out of the gray past into the 
green future " 

— Private Journal. 

"Virtue alone is sweet society; 
It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, 
And opens you a welcome in them all." 

— Virtue. 



QUOTATIONS FROM WILLIAM! WORDS- 
WORTH. 

§K PERFECT Woman, nobly planned, 
7^" To warn, to comfort, and com- 
mand; 
And yet a Spirit still, and bright 
With something of angelic light." 

— She Was a Phantom of Delight. 

"To me the meanest flower that blows can 
give 



Thoughts that do often lie too deep for 
tears." 

— Intimations of Immortality. 

"For I have learned to look on Xature, 
Xot as in the hour of thoughtless youth ; 
But hearing oftentimes the still, sad music 
of humanity." 
— Varying Impressions from Nature. 

"I see thee glittering from afar, — 
And then thou art a pretty star ; 
Not quite so fair as many are 
In heaven above thee." 

— To the Daisy. 

"Xature never did betray 

The heart that loved her; 'tis her privi- 
lege, 

Through all the years of this our life, to 
lead 

From joy to joy." 

— Solace in Nature. 

"And then my heart with pleasure fills, 
And dances with the daffodils." 

— Daffodils. 

"If care with freezing years should come, 

And wandering seem but folly, — 
Should we be loth to stir from home, 

And yet be melancholy, — 
Should life be dull, and spirits low, 

'Twill soothe us in our sorrow, 
That earth has something yet to show, 

The bonny holms of Yarrow." 

— Yarrow Unvisited. 

"How sweet on this autumnal day, 
The wild wood's fruits to gather, 

And on my true-love's forehead plant 
A crest of blooming heather." 

— Yarrow Visited. 

"I met a little cottage girl ; 

She was eight years old, she said ; 
Her hair was thick with many a curl 

That clustered round her head." 
— We Are Seven, 



272 



CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS. 



"Serene will be our days and bright, 
And happy will our natures be, 

When love is an unerring light, 
And joy its own security." 

— Ode to Duty. 

"The thought of our past years in me doth 

breed 
Perpetual benediction." 

— Ode to Immortality. 

"My heart leaps up when I behold 

A rainbow in the sky ; 
So was it when my life began; 
So is it now I am a man ; 
So be it when I shall grow old, 

Or let me die." 

— My Heart Leaps Up. 

"She lived unknown, and few could know 

When Lucy ceased to be, 
But she is in her grave, and, oh, 

The difference to me!" 

— She Dwelt Among. 

"O Reader ! had you in your mind 

Such stories as silent thought can bring, 

O gentle Reader ! you would find 
A tale in everything." 

— Simon Lee. 

"The charities that soothe, and heal, and 

bless, 
Are scattered at the feet of men like flow- 



ers. 



■Charity. 



"Down to the vale this water steers ; how 

merrily it goes ! 
'Twill murmur on a thousand years, and 

flow as now it flows ; 
And here, on this delightful day, I cannot 

choose but think 
How oft, a vigorous man, I lay beside this 

fountain's brink. 
My eyes are filled with childish tears, my 

heart is idly stirred, 
For the same sound is in my ears that in 

those days I heard." 

— An Old Man by the Brook. 



"Close clings to earth the living rock, 
Though threatening still to fall; 

The earth is constant to her sphere, 
And God upholds them all." 

— The Primrose of the Bock. 

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forget- 
ting; 
The soul that rises with us, our life's 
star, 
Hath had elsewhere its setting, 

And cometh from afar. 
'Not in entire forgetfulness, 
And not in utter nakedness, 
But trailing clouds of glory do we come 
From God, who is our home." 

— Ode. 

"Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her 

own; 
Yearnings she hath in her old natural 

kind, 
And even with something of a mother's 

mind, 
And no unworthy aim, 
The homely nurse doth all she can 
To make her Foster-child, her Inmate 

Man, 
Forget the glories he hath known, 
And that imperial palace whence he 



came.' 



■Ode to Immortality. 



QUOTATIONS FROM THOMAS BUCHAN- 
AN READ. 

¥0 more, no more 
The worldly shore 
Upbraids me with its loud uproar; 
With dreamful eyes 
My spirit lies 
Under the walls of Paradise !" 

— Drifting. 

"The maid who binds her warrior's sash, 
With smile that well her pain dissem- 
bles, 
The while, beneath her drooping lash, 
One starry tear-drop hangs and trem- 
bles, 




AN EXERCISE OF SPECIAL BENEFIT TO THE BODY IN PRESERVING THE 

LINES OF GRACE. 




HOOP EXERCISE. 

To make the "body supple. 
(See department on "The Art of Attainment.") 



CLAS&lFitib QUOTATIONS. 



373 



Though Heaven alone records the tear, 
And Fame shall never know her story, 

Her heart has shed a drop as dear 
As e'er bedewed the field of glory." 
— The Wagoner of the Alleghenies. 

"How sweet the hour of Sabbath talk, 

The vale with peace and sunshine full, 
Where all the happy people walk, 

Decked in their homespun flax and 
wool." 

—The Rising of 1776. 

"But soon are the harvesters tossing their 
sheaves ; 

The robin darts out from his bower of 
leaves ; 

The wren peepeth forth from the moss- 
covered eaves ; 

And the rain-spattered urchin now gladly 
perceives 

That the beautiful bow bendeth over them 
all." 

— The Summer Shower. 

"The pastor came ; his snowy locks 

Hallowed his brow of thought and care ; 
And calmly, as shepherds lead their 
flocks, 
He led into the house of prayer." 

— The Rising of 1776. 

"She had known sorrow, — he had walked 

with her, 
Oft supped, and broke the bitter ashen 

crust ; 
And in the dead leaves still she heard the 
stir 
Of his black mantle trailing in the 
dust." 

— The Closing Scene. 

"Though the world smile on you blandly, 
Let your friends be choice and few ; 

Choose your course, pursue it grandly, 
And achieve what you pursue." 

— Achievement. 

"At last the thread was snapped ; her head 
was bowed j 



Life dropped the distaff through his 
hands serene; 
And loving neighbors smoothed her care- 
ful shroud, 
While Death and Winter closed the au- 
tumn scene." 

— The Closing Scene. 

"Within its shade of elm and oak 

The church of Berkley Manor stood ; 
There Sunday found the rural folk, 

And some esteemed of gentle blood. 
In vain their feet with loitering tread 

Passed 'mid the graves where rank is 
naught ; 

All could not read the lesson taught 
In that republic of the dead." 

— The Rising of 1776. 

"O happy ship, 

To rise and dip! 

With the blue crystal at your lip ! 

O happy crew, 

My heart with you 

Sails, and sails, and sings anew*!" 

— Drifting. 

"The swallows alone take the storm on 
their wing, 

And, taunting the tree-sheltered laborers, 
sing; 

Like pebbles, the rain breaks the face of 
the spring, 

While a bubble darts up from each widen- 
ing ring." 

— The Summer Shower. 

"Under his spurning feet, the road, 
Like an arrowy Alpine river, flowed, 
And the landscape sped away behind 
Like an ocean flying before the wind, 
And the steed, like a bark fed with fur- 
nace ire, 
Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire." 
— Sheridan s Ride. 

"Amid all this — the center of the scene, 
The white-haired matron with monoto- 
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Plied the swift wheel, and with her joy- 
less mien 
Sat, like a fate, and watched the flying 
thread." 

— The Closing Scene. 

"The heart of the steed and the heart of 

the master 
Were beating like prisoners assaulting 

their walls, 
Impatient to be where the battlefield 

calls." 

— Sheridan's Ride. 



QUOTATIONS FROM WILLIAM CULLEN 
BRYANT. 

/pj O forth, under the open sky, and list 
V^J To Nature's teachings, while from 

all around — 
Earth and her waters, and the depths of 

air — 
Comes a still voice." 

— Thanatopsis. 

"See where, upon the horizon's brim, 
Lies the still cloud in gloomy bars; 

The waning moon, all pale and dim, 
G-oes up amid the eternal stars." 

— The Waning Moon. 

" There is a day of sunny rest 

For every dark and troubled night ; 

And grief may bide an evening guest, 
But joy shall come with early light." 
— Blessed Are They That Mourn. 

"In the cold moist earth we laid her, when 

the forests cast the leaf, 
And we wept that one so lovely should 

have a life so brief." 

— The Death of the Flowers. 

"Sweet odors in the sea air, sweet and 

strange, 
Shall tell the homesick mariner of the 

shore." 

— The Evening Wind. 



"Old sorrows are forgotten now, 

Or but remembered to make sweet the 

hour 
That overpays them ; wounded hearts that 

bled 
Or broke, are healed forever." 

— The Flood of Years. 

"O, from these sterner aspects of thy face 
Spare me and mine, nor let us need the 

wrath 
Of the mad unchained elements to teach 

who rules them." 

— A Forest Hymn. 

"The oriole should build and tell 

His love-tale close beside my cell; 

The idle butterfly 

Should rest him there, and there be heard 

The housewife bee and humming-bird." 

* — June. 

"The year's departing beauty hides, 
Of wintry storms the sullen threat, 

But in thy sternest frown abides 
A look of kindly promise yet." 

— March. 

"For God hath marked each sorrowing 
day 
And numbered every secret tear, 
And heaven's long age of bliss shall pay 
For all his children suffer here." 
— Blessed Are They That Mourn. 

"The years shall come and pass, but we 
Shall hear no longer, where we lie, 
The summer's songs, the autumn's sigh, 

In the boughs of the apple-tree." 

— Planting the Apple-Tree 

"Strike for that broad and goodly land, 
Blow after blow, till men shall see 

That Might and Right move hand in hand, 
And glorious must their triumph be." 
— Our Country's Call. 

"He who, from zone to zone, 

Guides through the boundless sky thy 
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Iii the long way that I must tread alone, 
Will lead my steps aright.'' 

— To a Water-Fowl. 

"In sadness then I ponder how quickly 

fleets the hour 
Of human strength and action, man's 

courage and his power; 
I muse while still the wood-thrush sings 

down the golden day ; 
And as I look and listen the sadness wears 

away." 

— Waiting by the Gate. 

"The quiet August noon has come ; 

A slumberous silence fills the sky ; 
The fields are still, the woods are dumb, 

In glassy sleep the waters lie." 

— A Summer Ramble. 

"There's a dance of leaves in the aspen 
bower, 
There's a titter of winds in that beechen 
tree; 
There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile 
on the flower, 
And a laugh from the brook that runs 
to the sea." 

— The Gladness of Nature. 

"In these peaceful shades — 

Peaceful, nnpruned, immeasurably old — 

My thoughts go up the long dim path of 

years, 
Back to the earliest days of liberty." 

— The Antiquity of Freedom. 

"Lodged in sunny cleft, 

Where the cold breezes come not, blooms 

alone 
The little wind-flower, whose just opened 

eye 
Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at." 
— A Winter Piece. 

"But I envy thy stream, as it glides along 
Through its beautiful banks in a trance of 
song." 

— Green River* 



"And all the beauty of the place 
Is in thy heart and on thy face." 

— Sonnet. 

"Flake after flake, 

At rest in the dark and silent lake." 

— The Snow-Shower. 

"The melancholy days are come, the sad- 
dest of the year — 

Of naked woods, and wailing winds, of 
meadows brown and sere." 

— The Death of the Flowers. 

"Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye 
Look through its fringes to the sky." 

— To The Fringed Gentian. 

"The same sweet sounds are in my ear 
My early childhood loved to hear." 

— A Reverie. 

"So live, that when thy summons comes 

to join 
The innumerable caravan that moves 
To that mysterious realm where each shall 

take 
His chamber in the silent halls of death, 
Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night, 
Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained 

and soothed 
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy 

grave 
Like one who wraps the drapery of his 

couch 
About him, and lies down to pleasant 

dreams." 

— Thanatopsis. 



QUOTATIONS FROM THOMAS BAILEY 
ALDRICH. 

fHE rain has ceased, and in my 
room 
The sunshine pours an airy flood ; 
And on the church's dizzy vane 

The ancient cross is bathed in blood." 
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"We knew it would rain, for all the morn 
A spirit, on slender ropes of mist, 

Was lowering its golden buckets down 
Into the vapory amethyst." 

— Before the Bain. 

"O, sad are those who know not love, 
But, far from passion's tears and 
smiles, 

Drift down a moonless sea, and pass 
The silver coasts of fairy isles." 

— Sad Are They Who Know Not Love. 

"She came, and brought delicious May. 

The swallows built beneath the eaves; 

Like sunlight, in and out the leaves, 
The robins went the live-long day." 

— Baby Bell. 

" Three roses, wan as moonlight, and 

weighed down, 
Each with its loveliness as with a crown, 
Drooped in a florist's window in a town. 
The first a lover bought. It lay at rest, 
Like flower on flower, that night on 

beauty's breast. 
The second rose, as virginal and fair, 
Shrank in the tangles of a harlot's hair. 
The third, a widow, with new grief made 

wild, 
Shut in the icy palm of her dead child." 

— Three Boses. 

"There is a better life than I have 
known — 
A surer, purer, sweeter life than this; 
There is another, a celestial zone, 
Where I shall know of bliss." 

— Lycidas. 

"The chestnuts shine through the cloven 
rind, 
And the woodland leaves are red, my 
dear ; 
The scarlet fuchsias burn in the wind — 
Funeral plumes for the year." 

— Song. 

"Time and death have stayed the golden 

sands 
That ran with such unrest." 

—-Lycidas. 



"May never traitor's touch pollute 

These colors of the sky; 
We want them pure, to wrap about 

Our heroes when they die." 

Our Colors at Fort Sumter. 

"O, smite us gently, gently, God ! 
Teach us to bend and kiss the rod, 
And perfect grow through grief." 

— Baby Bell. 

"Faint murmurs from the pine-tops reach 

my ear, 
As if a harp-string, touched in some far 

sphere, 
Vibrating in the lucid atmosphere, 
Let the soft south wind waft its music 

here." 

— The Pine Woods. 

"She never was a child to us; 

We never held her being's key; 
We could not teach her holy things; 

She was Christ's self in purity." 

— Baby Bell. 



QUOTATIONS FKOM LORD BYRON. 

HE smiles that win, the tints that 
glow, 

But tell of days in goodness spent — 
A mind at peace with all below, 
A heart whose love is innocent." 

— She Walks in Beauty. 

"Like the leaves of the forest when sum- 
mer is green, 
The host with their banners at sunset 
were seen; 
Like the leaves of the forest when autumn 
hath flown, 
The host on the morrow lay withered 
and s frown." 
— The Destruction of Sennacherib. 

"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean 
—roll ! 
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Man marks the earth with ruin — his con- 
trol 
Stops with the shore ; upon the watery 

plain 
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth 
remain 
A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, 
When, for a moment, like a drop of 
rain, 
Tie sinks into thy depths, with bubbling 

groan, 
Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined 
and unknown." 

— The Sea. 

"Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven, 
If in your bright leaves we would read 
the fate 
Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven 

That in our aspirations to be great 
Our destinies o'erlap their mortal state, 
And claim a kindred with you ; for ye 
are 
A beauty and a mystery, and create 

In us such love and reverence from 

afar, 
That fortune, fame, power, life, have 
named themselves a star." 

— Stars. 

"Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, 

Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay ; 

The midnight brought the signal-sound of 

strife, 

The morn the marshaling in arms — the 

day 
Battle's magnificently stern array." 
— The Unreturning Brave. 

"Here's a sigh to those who love me, 
And a smile to those who hate ; 

And, whatever sky's above me, 
Here's a heart for any fate." 

— To Thomas Moore. 



"In secret we met, 

In silence I grieve 
That thy heart could forget, 

Thy spirit deceive. 



If I should meet thee 

After long years, 
How should I greet thee ? 
With silence and tears." 

— When We Two Parted. 

"I had a dream, which was not all a 

dream. 
The bright sun was extinguished, and the 

stars 
Did wander darkling in the eternal space, 
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth 
Swung blind and blackening in the moon- 
less air." 

— Darkness. 

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, 
There is rapture on the lonely shore, 

There is society where none intrudes 
By the deep sea, and music in its roar." 

— Solitude. 

"To Thee, my God, to Thee I call ! 

Whatever weal or woe betide, 
By Thy command I rise or fall ; 

In Thy protection I confide." 

— The Prayer of Nature. 

" 'Tis not the plant upreared in sloth 
Which beauty shows, and sheds per- 
fume; 
The flowers which yield the most of both 
In nature's wild luxuriance bloom." 
— The Cornelian. 

"For Freedom's battle once begun, 
Bequeath' d by bleeding sire to son, 
Though baffled oft, is ever won." 

— The Giaour. 

" 'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest 
bark 
Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw 
near home ; 
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will 
mark 
Our coming, and look brighter when we 



come. 



■Don Juan. 



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"Florid prose, nor honeyed lines of rhyme, 
Can blazon evil deed, or consecrate a 



crime. 



— Childe Harold. 



"The thorns which I have reaped are of 
the tree 
I planted, — they have torn me. — and I 
bleed ; 
I should have known wnat fruit would 
spring 
From such a seed." 

— Childe Harold. 

"Birthdays are as mile-posts on the road 

of time, 
Each with its two arms pointing different 

ways; 
On one, inscribed in naming characters, 
' The Past'; and from the other darkly 

gleam, 
Through the murky mists, in letters dimly 

seen, 
The words, ' Straight forward for Eter- 



nity. 



— Birthdays. 



"But there are human natures so allied 

Unto the savage love of enterprise, 

That they will seek for peril as a pleas- 



ure.' 



— Danger. 



"How sweet it were in concert to adore 
With those who made our mortal labors 
light; 
To hear each voice we fear'd to hear no 
more! 
Behold each mighty shade reveal'd to 
sight!" 

— Ancient Greece. 

"A thousand hearts beat happily; and 
when 
Music arose with its voluptuous swell, 
Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake 
again, 
And all went merry as a marriage-bell." 
— Battle of Waterloo. 



"There breathes a living fragrance from 
the shore, 
Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on 
the ear 
Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, 
Or chirps the grasshopper one good- 
night carol more." 

— Lalce Leman. 



"Tie heard it, but he heeded not ; his eyes 
Were with his heart, and that was far 
away." 

— The Gladiator. 



"And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my 

joy 

Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be 
Borne, like thy bubbles onward." 

— Apostrophe to the Ocean. 



"But in his delicate form, are expressed 
All that ideal beauty ever blessed." 

— Statue of Apollo. 

"And Ardennes waves above them her 
green leaves, 
Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they 
pass, 
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, 
Over the unre turning brave — alas !" 
— Childe Harold. 



"Where are thy men of might ? thy grand 

in soul ? 
Gone — glimmering through the dream of 

things that were." 

— Ancient Greece. 



"But words are things, and a small drop 
of ink, 

Falling, like dew, upon a thought, pro- 
duces 

That which makes thousands, perhaps mil- 
lions, think." 

— Words. 



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QUOTATIONS FROM JAMES WHITCOMB 
RILEY. 

HE delights of our childhood is soon 
passed away, 
And our gloryus youth it departs, — 
And yit, dead and buried, tkey's blossoms 

of May 
Ore theyr medderland graves in our 
hearts." 
— The Delights of Our Childhood. 

"Oh ! the old swimmin'-hole ! In the 
happy days of yore, 

When I ust to lean above it on the old 
sickamore ; 

Oh! it showed me a face in its warm 
sunny tide 

That gazed back at me so gay and glori- 
fied, 

It made me love myself, as I leaped to ca- 
ress 

My shadder smilin' up at me with such 
tenderness. 

But them days is past and gone, and old 
Time's tuck his toll 

From the old man come back to the old 
swimmin'-hole." 

— The Old Swimmiri-Hole. 

"As one who cons at evening o'er an album 
all alone, 

And muses on the faces of the friends that 
he Has known, 

So I turn the leaves of fancy till, in shad- 
owy design, 

I find the smiling features of an old sweet- 
heart of mine." 

— An Old Sweetheart. 

"Yet Baby — 0, my Baby, for your sake, 
This heart of mine is ever wide awake, 
And my love may never droop a drowsy 
eye— 

Baby-bye ! 
Till your own are wet above me when I 
die — 

Baby-bye ! — 
Till your own are wet above me when I 
die." 

— Lullaby. 



"When my dreams come true — I shall bide 

among the sheaves 
Of happy harvest meadows; and the 

grasses and the leaves 
Shall lift and lean between me and the 

splendor of the sun, 
Till the moon swoons into twilight, and 

the gleaner's work is done — 
Save that yet an arm shall bind me, even 

as the reapers do 
The meanest sheaf of harvest — when my 

dreams come true." 
— When My Dreams Come True. 

" 'Whatever the weather mav be,' says 

he— 
'Whatever the weather may be, 
It's the songs ye sing, an' the smiles ye 

wear, 
That's a-makin' the sunshine every- 
where.' " 

— Says He. 

"The river's story flowing by, 
Forever sweet to ear and eye, 
Forever tenderly begun — 
Forever new and never done. 
Thus lulled and sheltered in a shade 
Where never feverish cares invade, 
I bait my hook and cast my line, 
And feel the best of life is mine." 

— At Broad Ripple. 

"The touches of her hands are like the 

dew 
That falls so softly down no one e'er kneAv 
The touch thereof save lovers like to one 
Astray in lights where ranged Enclym- 



ion.' 



-Dear Hands. 



"Wisht that yarn was true about him, as 

it 'peared to be — 
Truth made out o' lies like that-un's good 

enough f er me ! 
Wisht I still wuz so confidin' I could ~es' 

go wild 
Over hangin' up my stockin's, like a little 

child 



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Climbin' in my lap to-night, and beggin' 
me to tell 

'Bout them rein-deers, and 'Old Santy' 
that she loves so well. 

I'm half sorry fer this little-girl sweet- 
heart of his — 

Long afore 

She knows who 

'Santy-Claus' is!" 

— Long Afore He Knowed Who Santy- 
Claus Wuz. 

"It struggled and writhed in caress of the 

eddy, 
As love in the billowy breast of a bride." 
— Moon-Drowned. 

"All listlessly we float 
Out seaward in the boat 

That beareth Love. 
Our sails of purest snow 
Bend to the blue below 

And to the blue above. 
Where shall we land ?" 

—Where Shall We Land? 

"It ain't no use to grumble and complain ; 

It's jest as cheap and easy to rejoice ; 
When God sorts out the weather and sends 
rain, 
W'y, rain's my choice." 

— Wet Weather Talk. 

"The thoughts that come in the shadows 
Never come in the shine." 

— In the Dark. 

"Always suddenly they are gone — 

The friends we trusted and held se- 
cure — 
Suddenly we are gazing on, 

Not a smiling face, but the marble-pure 
Dead mask of a face that nevermore 
To a smile of ours will make reply." 

— Three Dead Friends. 

"Nights by the kitchen-stove, 

Shelling white and red 
Corn in a skillet, and 

Sleepin' four abed! 



Ah! the jolly winters 

Of the long-ago! 
We were not so old as now — 

O! No! No!" 
— Old Mans Nursery Rhyme. 

"When life was like a story, holding 

neither sob nor sigh, 
In the golden olden glory of the days gone 

by." 

— The Days Gone By. 

"Turn back the leaves of life ; don't read 

the story, — 
Let's find the 'pictures, and fancy all the 

rest." 

— Babyhood. 

"For we know, not every morrow 
Can be sad." 

— Kissing the Bod. 

"And though at last the gloom of night 
fell o'er them, 
And folded all the landscape from their 
eyes, 
They only knew the dusky path before 
them 
Was leading safely on to Paradise." 
— The Lost Path. 

"And I grope through the dark, lookin' 
up'ards 
And on through the heavenly dome, 
With my longin' soul singin' and sobbin' 
The words, 'Do They Miss Me at 
Home V " 

— A' Old Played-Out Song. 

"I kin see the honeysuckle climbin' up 

around the mill ; 
And can hear the worter chuckle, and the 

wheel a-growlin' still; 
And thum the bank below it I kin steal the 

old canoe, 
And jes' get in and row it like the miller 

used to do." 

■ — Bomanciii. 



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m 



"Let's go a-visitin' back to Griggsby's Sta- 



tion 



Back where the latch-string's a-hangin' 
from the door, 
And ever' neighbor round the place is 
dear as a relation — 
Back where Ave used to be so happy and 



so pore 



-At Griggsby's Station. 



"Through the viny, shady-shiny 
Interspaces, shot with tiny 
Flying motes that speck the winy 
Wave-engraven sycamores." 

— A Dream of Autumn. 

"Whilst the old town, far away, 
'Crost the hazy pastur-land, 

Dozed-like in the heat o' day 
Peaceful as a hired-hand." 
— Up and Down Old Brandywine. 

"The little arms that slowly, slowly loosed 
Their pressure round your neck; the 

hands you used 
To kiss — such arms, such hands, I never 

knew, ■ 
May I not weep with you ?" 

— Bereaved. 



QUOTATIONS FROM OLIVER WENDELL 
HOLMES. 

fHEX here's to our boyhood, its gold 
and its gray! 
The stars of its winter, the dews of its 

May! 
And when we have done with our life- 
lasting toys, 
Dear Father, take care of Thy children, 
the Boys." 

— The Boys. 

"You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, 
How it went to pieces, all at once; 
All at once, and nothing first — 
Just as bubbles do when they burst; 
End of the wonderful one-hoss shay, 
Logic is logic, that's all I say." 

— The One-Hoss Shay. 



"Build thee more 3tately mansions, my 
soul, 

As the swift seasons roll ! 

Leave thy low-vaulted past ! 

Let each new temple, nobler than the last, 

Shut thee from heaven with a dome more 
vast, 

Till thou at length are free, 

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's un- 
resisting sea." 

— The Chambered Nautilus. 

"If word of mine another's gloom has 
brightened, 

Through my dumb lips the heaven-sent 
message came; 

If hand of mine another's task has light- 
ened, 

It felt the guidance that it dares not 
claim." 

— The Iron Gate. 

"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. 
The Angel of Life winds them up once 
for all, then closes the case, and gives the 
key into the hands of the Angel of the 
Resurrection." _ TU Autoefat . 

"Home of our childhood! how affection 

clings 
And hovers round thee with her seraph 



wings 



Dearer thy hills, though clad in autumn 

brown, 
Than fairest summits which the cedars 

crown ! 
Sweeter the fragrance of thy summer 

breeze 
Than all Arabia breathes along the seas! 
The stranger's gale wafts home the exile's 

sigh 
For the heart's temple is its own blue 

sk y ! " Poetry. 

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is a 
handle which fits them all." 
— The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table. 

"Stick to your aim; the mongrel's hold 
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But only crowbars loose the bulldog's 

grip ; 
Small as lie looks, the jaw that never 

yields 
Drags down the bellowing monarch of the 

fields." 

— A Rhymed Lesson. 

"Not in the world of light alone, 

Where God has built his blazing throne, 

Nor yet alone in earth below, 

With belted seas that come and go, 

And endless isles of sunlight green, 

Is all thy Maker's glory seen. 

Look in upon thy wondrous frame — 

Eternal wisdom still the same." 

— The Living Temple. 

"If earth had rolled 

Her myriad centuries, and her doom were 

told, 
Each moaning billow of her shoreless 

wave 
Would wail its requiem o'er a poet's 

grave." 

— Poetry. 

"God bless our fatherland, 
Keep her in heart and hand 

One with our own; 
Erom all her foes defend, 
Be her brave people's friend; 
On all her realms descend ; 

Protect her throne." 

— God Bless Our Fatherland. 

"I love the memory of the just — its 

pressed yet fragrant flowers — 
The moss that clothes its broken walls — 

the ivy on its towers — 
Nay, this poor bawble is bequeathed, my 

eyes grow moist and dim, 
To think of all the vanished joys that 

danced around its brim." 
— On, Lending a Punch Bowl. 

"The immortal boy, the coming heir of all, 
Springs from his desk to 'urge the flying 
ball,' 



Cleaves with his bending oar the glassy 

waves, 
With sinewy arm the dashing current 

braves." 

— The College Regatta. 

"And if I should live to be 
The last leaf upon the tree 

In the spring, 
Let them smile, as I do now, 
At the old forsaken bough 

Where I cling." 

— The Last Leaf. 

"A few can touch the magic string, 
And noisy fame is proud to win them ; 

Alas, for those that never sing, 

But die with all their music in them." 
The Voiceless. 

"You hear that boy laughing ? You think 

he's all fun ; 
The angels laugh, too, at the good he has 

done; 
The children laugh loud, as they troop to 

his call, 
But the poor man that knows him laughs 

loudest of all." 

— The Boys. 

"Clear the brown path to meet his coul- 
ter's gleam! 

Lo! on he comes, behind his smoking 
team, 

With toil's bright dewdrops on his sun- 
burnt brow, 

The lord of earth, the hero of the plough." 
— The Ploughman. 

"The race that shortens its weapons 
lengthens its boundaries." 

— Autocrat at the Breakfast Table. 

"0 for one hour of youthful joy! 

Give back my twentieth spring ! 
I'd rather laugh, a bright-haired boy, 

Than reign a gray-beard king." 

— The Old Man Dreams. 

"Thus drifting afar to the dim-vaulted 
caves, 



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Where life and its ventures are laid, 
The dreamers who gaze while we battle 
the waves, 
May see us in sunshine or shade ; 
Yet true to our course, though our shadow 
grow dark, 
We'll trim our broad sail as before, 
xlnd stand by the rudder that governs the 
bark, 
Xor ask how we look from the shore." 
— Perpetual Changes. 

"Call him not old, whose visionary brain 
Holds o'er the past its undivided reign, 
For him in vain the envious seasons roll 
Who bears eternal summer in his soul." 
— The Autocrat. 

"Oh, for one spot of living green — 
One little spot where leaves can grow — 

To love unblamed, to walk unseen, 
To dream above, to sleep below." 

— Spring Has Come. 



"Hugged in the clinging billows' clasp, 

From seaweed fringe to mountain 
heather, 
The British oak with rooted grasp 

Her slender handful holds together; 
With cliffs of white and bowers of green, 

And Ocean narrowing to caress her, 
And hills and treated streams between, 

Our little mother isle, God bless her." 
— A Good Time Going. 

"Come to me ! thou shalt feed on honeyed 

words, 
Sweeter than song of birds." 

— Musa. 

"God bless you, gentlemen ! Learn to give 
Money to colleges while you live; 
Don't be silly and think you'll try 
To bother the colleges, when you die, 
With codicil this and codicil that, 
That Knowledge may starve while Law 

grows fat; 
For there never vas pitcher that wouldn't 

spill, 



And there's alwavs a flaw in a donkey's 
will." 

— Parson TurrelVs Legacy. 

"Truth is tough; it will not break like 
a bubble at a touch; nay, you may kick 
it about all day like a football and it will 
be round and full in the evening." 

— Autocrat at the Breakfast Table. 



QUOTATIONS FROM JAMES RUSSELL 
LOWELL. 

ND blessed are the horny hands of 
toil! 

The busy world shoves angrily aside 
The man who stands with arms akimbo 
set, 
Until occasion tells him what to do." 
— A Glance Behind the Curtain. 

"God makes sech nights, all white an' still 

Fur'z you can look or listen, 
Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill, 

All silence an' all glisten." 

— The Courtin. 

"I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn, 
Where a little headstone stood ; 

How the flakes were folding it gently, 
As did robins the babes in the wood." 
— The First Snow-Fall 

"Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to 

the heart, 
And his mere word makes despots tremble 

more 
Than ever Brutus with his dagger could." 

— L' Envoi. 

"Long she lies in wait, 
Makes many a feint, peeps forth, draws 

coyly back, 
Then, from some southern ambush in the 

sky, 
With one great gush of blossoms storm? 
the world," 

J une. 



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" 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 
'Tis only God may be had for the asking." 
— Vision of Sir Launfal. 

"Let fraud and wrong and baseness shiver, 

For still between them and the sky 
The falcon Truth hangs poised forever 
And marks them with his vengeful 
eye." 

— The Falcon. 

"They are slaves who fear to speak 

For the fallen and the weak; 

They are slaves who will not choose 

Hatred, scoffing and abuse, 

Rather than in silence shrink 

From the truth they needs must think ; 

They are slaves who dare not be 

In the right with two or three." 

— -Stanzas on Freedom. 

"Wondrous and awful are thy silent halls, 

O kingdom of the past! 
There lie the bygone ages in their palls, 

Guarded by shadows vast." 

—To the Past. 

"He's true to God who's true to man, 

wherever wrong is done, 
To the humblest and the weakest, 'neath 

the all-beholding sun; 
That wrong is also done to us, and they 

are slaves most base, 
Whose love of right is for themselves, and 

not for all their race." 
— On the Capture of a Fugitive Slave. 

"New occasions teach new duties; Time 
makes ancient good uncouth; 

They must upward still, and onward, who 
would keep abreast of Truth." 
— The Present Crisis. 

"They did as they were taught; not theirs 

the blame, 
If men who scattered fire-brands reaped 

the flame." 

— Ode to France. 



" 'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true 
As for grass to be green or skies to be 

blue — 
'Tis the natural way of living." 

— Vision of Sir Launfal. 

"The laurel leaves are cool and green, 
But the thorns are hot and sharp, 

Lean Hunger grins and stares between 
The poet and his harp." 

— In Sadness. 

"0 for the hopes and for the feelings, 
Childhood, that I shared with thee." 
— The Departed. 

"But now, alas! those golden days of 
youth and hope are o'er, 

And I must dream those dreams of joy, 
those guiltless dreams no more." 

— Song. 

"Knowledge doth only widen love; 
The stream, that lone and narrow rose, 
Doth, deepening ever, onward move, 
And with an even current flows 
Calmer and calmer to the close." 

— Love's Altar. 

"Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis 

like 
A star new-born, that drops into its 

place ; 
And which, once circling in its placid 

round, 
Not all the tumult of the earth can shake." 

— A Glance Behind the Curtain. 

"Communion in spirit ! Forgive me, 
But I, who am earthly and weak, 
Would give all my incomes from dream- 
land, 
For a touch of her hand on my cheek." 
— After the Burial. 

"For it died that autumn morning 
When she, its soul, was borne 

To lie all dark on the hillside 

That looks over woodland and corn." 
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"I know not how others saw her. 
But to me she was wholly fair, 

And the light of the heaven she came from 
Still lingered and gleamed in her hair." 
— The Changeling. 

"An angel stood and met my gaze, 

Through the low doorway of my tent; 

The tent is struck, the vision stays — ■ 
I only know she came and went." 

— She Came and Went. 

"I, that still pray at morn and eve, 
Loving these roots that fed us from the 

past, 
And prizing more than Plato things I 

learned 
At the best academy, a mother's knee." 
— The Cathedral. 

"What men call luck 
Is the prerogative of valiant souls, 
The fealty life pays its rightful kings." 
— A Glance Behind the Curtain. 

"Good luck is the willing handmaid 
of upright, energetic character, and con- 
scientious observance of duty." 

— Essay on Wordsworth. 



QUOTATIONS FROM ROBERT BURNS. 

HE tempest's howl, it soothes my 
soul, 
My griefs it seems to join ; 
The leafless trees my fancy please, 
Their fate resembles mine." 

— Winter. 

"O happy love! where love like this is 

found ! 
O heart-felt raptures! bliss beyond com- 
pare! 
I've paced much this weary, mortal round, 
And sage experience bids me this declare, 
If heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure 

spare, 
One cordial in this melancholy vale, 
'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, 



In other's arms breathe out the tender 

tale, 
Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents 

the ev'ning gale." 

— The Cotter s Saturday Night. 

"Man's inhumanity to man 
Makes countless thousands mourn." 
— Man Was Made to Mourn. 

"From scenes like these old Scotia's 
grandeur springs, 
That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd 
abroad ; 
Princes and lords are but the breath of 
kings, 
'An honest man's the noblest work of 
God.' " 
— The Cotter's Saturday Night. 

"But pleasures are like poppies spread, 
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; 
Or, like the snowfall in the river, 
A moment white — then melts forever." 
— Tarn O'Shanter. 

"The rank is but the guinea's stamp, 
The man's the gowd for a' that. 

— Honest Poverty. 

"To catch Dame Fortune's golden smile 
Assiduous wait upon her; 
And gather gear by ev'ry wile 
That's justify'd by honor; 
Not for to hide it in a hedge, 
Not for a train attendant; 
But for the glorious privilege 
Of being independent." 

— Epistle to a Young Friend. 

"Ask why God made the gem so small, 
An' why so huge the granite ? 

Because God meant mankind should set 
That higher value on it." 

— Lines. 

"What is life when wanting love ? 

Night without a morning! 
Love's the cloudless summer sun, 

Nature's gay adorning." 

— Song. 



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"Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, 
And o'er the crystal streamlet plays, 
Come, let us spend the lightsome days 
In the Birks of Aberfeldy." 

— The Birks of Aberfeldy. 

"John Anderson, my Jo, John, 

We clamb the hill thegither ; 
And monie a canty day, John, 

We've had wi' ane anither ; 
Now we maun totter down, John, 

But hand in hand we'll go. 
And sleep thegither at the foot. 

John Anderson, my Jo." 

— John Anderson, My Jo. 

"Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, 
How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair! 

How can ye chant, ye little birds, 
And I sae weary fu' o' care!" 

— The Banks o' Doon. 

"Flow gently, sweet Aft on. among thy 

green braes, 
Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy 

praise ; 
My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring 

stream, 
Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her 

dream." 

— Afton Water. 

"My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is 

not here ; 
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the 

deer; 
Chasing the wild deer, and following the 

roe, 
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I 

go." 

— My Heart's in the Highlands. 

"Affliction's sons are orothers in distress; 
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the 
bliss !" 

— A Winter Night. 

"Long since, this world's thorny ways 
Had nivmber'd out my weary days, 
Had it not been for you ! 



Fate still has blest me with a friend, 
In every care and ill." 

— Epistle to Davie. 

"Happy, ye sons of busy life, 
Who, equal to the bustling strife, 
No other view regard." 

— Despondency. 

"An' mind your duty, duly, morn and 

night ! 
Lest in temptation's path ye»gang astray." 

— The Cotter s Saturday Night. 

"Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, 
Thou's met me in an evil hour." 

— To a Mountain Daisy. 

"O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us 
To see oursels as others see us." 

— To a Louse. 

"There's ae wee faut they whyles lay to 

me, 
I like the lasses — Gude forgie me !" 

— Epistle to John Lapraik. 

"O Thou wha gies us each guid gift ! 

Gie me o' wit an' sense a lift, 

Then turn me, if Thou please, adrift, 

Thro' Scotland wide; 
Wi' cits nor lairds I wadna shift, 

In a' their pride." 

— To a Friend. 

"Then farewell folly, hide and hair o't, 
For ance and aye." 

— Poem, To a Friend. 

"When death's dark stream I ferry o'er, 
A time that surely shall come; 

In Heaven itself I'll ask no more, 
Than just a Highland welcome." 

— A Verse. 

"The graybeard, Old Wisdom, may boast 
of his treasures, 
Give me with gay Folly to live ; 
I grant him his calm-blooded, time-settled 
pleasures, 
But Folly has raptures to give." 

— Lines, 



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QUOTATIONS FROM LOUISA MAY 
ALCOTT. 

OW can I learn to rule myself, 
To be the child I should— 
Honest and brave, nor ever tire 

Of trying to be good ? 
How can I keep a sunny soul 
To shine along life's way ? 
How can I tune my little heart 
To sweetly sing each day?" 

— My Kingdom. 

"Queen of my tuo, I merrily sing 
While the white foam rises high, 

And sturdily wash, and rinse, and wring, 
And fasten the clothes to dry. 

Then out in. the free, fresh air they swing 

Under the sunny sky. 

****** 

I wish we could wash from our hearts and 
our souls 
The stains of the week away, 
And let water and air, by their magic, 
make 
Ourselves as pure as they; 
Then on earth there would be, indeed, 
A glorious washing-day." 

— Songs from the Suds. 

"There are a good many hard times in 
this life of ours, but we can always bear 
them if we ask help the right way." 

— Little Women. 

"Haunting the hills, the stream, the wild, 
Swallow and aster, lake and pine, 
To him grew human or divine — 

Fit mates for this large-hearted child. 

Such homage Nature ne'er forgets, 
And yearly on the coverlid, 
'Neath which her darlings lieth hid 

Will write his name in violets." 

— Thoreaus Flute. 

"It was only a kind word and a friendly 
act, but somehow it brightened the dark 
room wonderfully. It changed the faces 
of a dozen women, and I think touched a 
dozen hearts." 

— A Pleasant Incident. 



"One can shape life best by trying to 
build up a strong and noble character, 
through good books, wise people's society, 
and by taking an interest in all reforms 
that help the world — believing always 
that a loving and just Father cares for 
us, sees our weakness, and is near to help 
if we call." 

— Reminiscences. 

"Faithfulness in little things fits one 
for heroism when the great trials come." 
— Letters to a Friend. 

"The world lies fair about us, and friend- 
ly sky above, 

Our lives are full of sunshine, our homes 
are full of love; 

Few cares or sorrows sadden the beauty 
of our day, 

We gather simple pleasures, like daisies 
by the way; 

There's not a cloud in heaven but drops 
its silent dew, 

No violet in the meadow but blesses with 
its blue, 

No happy child in Concord, who may not 
do its part, 

To make the great world better, by inno- 
cence of heart. 

Oh! blossom in the sunshine, beneath the 
village tree, 

For the little lads and lasses are the fair- 
est flowers we see." 
— To the Children of Concord. 

"As I turn my face toward sunset I 
find so much to make the down-hill jour- 
ney smooth and lovely that, like Chris- 
tian, I go on my way rejoicing with a 
cheerful heart." 

— Journal. 



QUOTATIONS FROM PAUL LAURENCE 
DUNBAR. 

1®\ E OL' time's gone, de new time's 
\%J hyeah, 

Wid all hits fuss an' feddahs ; 
I done fu'got de joy an' cheah 

We knowed all kin's o' weddahs. 



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I done fu'got each, ol'-time hymn 

We ust to sing in meetin' ; 
I's leahned de pra'hs, so neat an' trim, 

De preachah keeps us 'peatin'." 

— Long Ago. 

"It's moughty tiahsome layin' 'roun', 

Dis sorrer-laden earfly groun', 
An' oftentimes I thinks, thinks I, 
i 'T would be a sweet t'ing des to die, 
i An' go 'long home." 

— Wen I Gits Home. 

"Wisht I was huh lookin'-glass, 

Wen she kissed huh han', 
Does you t'ink I'd let it pass, 

Settin' on de stand' % 
~No ; I'd des' fall down an' break, 

Kin' o' glad t'uz fu' huh sake ; 
But de diffunce, dat whut make 

Lookin'-glass an' man." 

— The Loohing-Glass. 

"You kin hyeah a fine perfo'mance w'en 
de white ban's serenade, 
An' dey play de high-toned music 
mighty sweet, 
But hit's Sousa played in rag-time an' 
hit's Kastus on Parade, 
Wen de colo'ed ban' comes ma'chin' 
down de street." 
— Wen De Colo'ed Ban' Comes Ma'chin 
Down de Street. 

"Oh, mighty master of the mighty lyre! 

Earth heard and trembled at thy strains 
of fire; 

Earth learned of thee what Heav'n al- 
ready knew, 

And wrote thee down among the treasured 
few." 

— Tribute to Lincoln. 

"Hang a vine by de chimney side, 

An' one by de cabin do' ; 
An' sing a song fu' de day dat died, 

De day of long ergo." 

- — De Day of Long Ergo. 



"Oh, Mastah, won't you sen' de call ? 
My frien's is daih, my hope, my all, 
I's waitin' whaih de road is rough, 
I want to hyeah you say, Enough — 
01' man, come home!" 

— W'en I Gits Home. 

"I'd lak a few ol' frien's tonight 

To come an' set wid me; 

An' let me feel dat ol' delight 

I ust to in dey glee. 
But hyeah we is, my pipe an' me, 

Wid no one else erbout; 
We bofe as choked ez choked kin be, 
An' bofe'll soon go out." 

— Long Ago. 



QUOTATIONS FROM THOMAS MOORE. 

®H ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, 
I've seen my fondest hopes decay; 
I never loved a tree or flower, 

But 'twas the first to fade away." 
— Lalla Bookh. 



"You may break, you may snatter, the 

vase, if you will, 
But the scent of the roses will cling: round 



it still." 



-Farewell. 



"Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven 
cannot heal." 

— Come, Ye Disconsolate. 

"And so 'twill be, when I am gone, 
That tuneful peal will still ring on; 
While other bards shall walk these dells, 
And sing your praise, sweet evening 
bells." 

— Those Evening Bells. 

"Oft in the stilly night, 

Ere slumber's chain has bound me, 
Fond memory brings the light 

Of other days around me." 

— The Light of Other Days. 



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"So soon may I follow, 

Where friendships decay, 
And from Love's shining circle 

The gems drop away ! 
When true hearts lie withered, 

And fond ones are flown, 
Oh ! who would inhabit 

This bleak world alone ?" 
— The Last Rose of Summer. 

"Oh, if there be, on this earthly sphere, 
A boon and offering Heaven holds dear, 
'Tis the last libation Liberty draws 
From the heart that bleeds and breaks in 
her cause." 

— Lalla Roohh. 

"The friends who in our sunshine live 
When winter comes are flown, 

And he who has but tears to give 
Must weep those tears alone." 

— Consolation of Religion. 

"Let Fate do her worst ; there are relics of 

joy, 

Bright dreams of the past which she can- 
not destroy; 

Which come in the night time of sorrow 
and care, 

And bring back the features that joy used 
to wear." 

— Farewell. 

"Sweetheart, good-bye ! one last embrace ! 

Oh, cruel fate, two souls to sever! 
Yet in this heart's most sacred place 

Thou, thou alone, shall dwell forever." 

— Good-Bye. 

"But there's nothing half so sweet in life 

As love's young dream! 
O, there's nothing half so sweet in life 

As love's young dream !" 

— Love's Young Dream. 

"Alas ! how light a cause may move 

Dissension between hearts that love." 

- — Alas! How Light a Cause May Move. 



"They made her a grave, too cold and 
damp 
For a heart so warm and true; 
And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal 

Swamp 
Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, 
She paddles her white canoe." 

— Lake of the Dismal Swamp. 

"This world is all a fleeting show, 

For man's illusion given ; 
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, 
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow — 
There's nothing true but heaven." 
— This World Is All a Fleeting Show. 

"Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes, 

The only throb she gives 
Is when some heart indignant breaks, 

To show that she still lives." 
— The Harp That Once Through Taras 

Halls. 

"Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, 
But the trail of the Serpent is over them 
all." 

— Paradise and the Peri. 

"Think'st thou that she, whose only light, 
In this dim world for thee hath shone, 

Could bear the long, the cheerless night, 
That must be hers, when thou art 



gone 



?» 



-Lalla Roohh 



"One who in life, where'er he moved, 
Drew after him the hearts of many ; 

Yet now, as though he ne'er were loved, 

Dies here, unseen, unwept by any!" 

— Paradise and the Peri. 

"But hark ! the vesper call to prayer, 
As slow the orb of daylight sets, 

Is rising sweetly on the air, 

From Syria's thousand minarets." 
— Lalla Roohh. 

"Farewell ! but whenever you welcome the 

hour 
That awakens the night-song of mirth in 

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Then think of the friend who was once 

welcomed, too, 
And forgot his own griefs to be happy 

with yon." 

— Farewell. 

"Long, long may my heart with these 

memories be filled, 
Like the vase, in which roses have once 

been distilled." 

— Farewell. 

"Here see the bread of life, see waters 
flowing 
Forth from the throne of God, pure 
from above; 
Come to the feast of love, come, ever 
knowing, 
Earth has no sorrows but Heaven can 
remove." 

— Come, Ye Disconsolate. 

"Blest tears of soulfelt penitence ! 

In whose benign, redeeming flow 
Is felt the first, the only sense 

Of guiltless joy that guilt can know." 
— Lalla Bookh. 

"Still laughs the radiant eye of "Heaven, 
Nor have the golden bowers of even 
In the rich west begun to wither." 

— Paradise and the Peri. 

"Black as the damning drops that fall 
From the denouncing angel's pen, 
Ere Mercy weeps them out again." 
— Lalla Bookh. 



QUOTATIONS FROM ALFRED TENNY- 
SON. 

OK though from out our bourne of 
|S@ time and place 
The flood may bear me far, 
I hope to see my Pilot face to face 
When I have cros't the bar." 

— Crossing the Bar. 



"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." 
— Lochsley Hal 1 

"He owns the fatal gift of eyes 
That read his spirit blindly wise, 
Not simple as a thing that dies." 
— The Two Voices. 

"Like souls that balance joy and pain, 
With tears and smiles from heaven again 
The maiden Spring upon the plain 
Came in a sunlit fall of rain." 
— Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere. 

"Ah, God, for a man with heart, head 
and hand, 
Like some of the simple great ones gone 
forever and ever by ; 
One still strong man in a blatant land, 
Whatever they call him, what care I, 
Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat — one, 
Who can rule, and dare not lie !" 

— Maud. 

"Our wills are ours, we know not how: 



Our wills are ours, 



to make them thine." 
— In Memoriam. 



"Sweet and low, sweet and low, 

Wind of the western sea, 
Low, low, breathe and blow, 

Wind of the western sea ! 
Over the rolling waters go, 
Come from the dying moon and blow, 

Blow him again to me ; 
While my little one, while my pretty one, 
sleeps." 

— The Princess. 

"Uphold me, Father, in my loneliness 
A little longer ! Aid me, give me strength 
Not to tell her, never to let her know, 
Help me not to break in upon her peace." 
— Enoch Arden. 

"My life is full of weary days 
. But good things have not kept aloof." 

— Song. 



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"Break, break, break, 

At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! 
But the tender grace of a day that is dead 

Will never come back to me." 

— Break, Break, Break. 

"Love lieth deep; love dwells not in lip- 
depths." 

-The Lover's Tale. 

"In the Spring a livelier iris changes on 
the burnished dove; 

In the Spring a young man's fancy light- 
ly turns to thoughts of lcve." 
— Locksley Hall. 

" 'He does not love me for my birth, 
Nor for my lands so broad and fair. 

He loves me for my own true worth, 
And that is well/ said Lady Clare." 
— Lady Clare. 

"The splendor falls on castle walls 
And snowy summits old in story ; 

The long light breaks across the lakes, 
And the wild cataract leaps in glory." 
— The Bugle Song. 

"Yet none could better know than I, 
How much of act at human hands 
The sense of human will demands 

Bv which we dare to live or die." 

— In Memoriam. 

"He that only rules by terror 
Doeth grievous wrong." 

— The Captain. 

"Break, break, break, 

On the cold gray stones, Sea ! 
And I would that my heart could utter, 

The thoughts that arise in me." 

— Break, Break, Break. 

"Kind hearts are more than coronets, 
And simple faith than Norman blood." 

— Harold. 



"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, 
The flying cloud, the frosty light; 

The year is dying in the night — 

Ring out, wild bells, and let him die." 
— Ring Out, Wild Bells. 

"Across the hills and far away, 
Beyond the utmost jmrple rim, 

And deep into the dying day, 

The happy princess followed him." 
— The Departure. 

'Her open eyes desire the truth, 

The wisdom of a thousand years 
Is in them. May perpetual youth 
Keep dry their light from tears." 
— Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights. 

"There's a new foot on the floor, my 

friend, 
And a new face at the door, my friend, 
A new face at the door." 

— Death of the Old Year. 

"O love, they die in yon rich sky, 
They faint on hill, or field, or river, 

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, 
And grow forever and forever." 
— Bugle Song. 

"Tears, idle tears. I know not what they 
mean, 

Tears from the depths of some divine de- 
spair 

Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes." 
— Tears, Idle Tears. 

"Love thou thy land, with love f ar-brought, 
From out the storied Past, and used .» 
Within the Present, but transfused." \ 
— Love Thou Thy Land. 

"I chatter, chatter, as I flow 
To join the brimming river, 

For men may come, and men may go, 
But I go on forever." 

— The Brook, 



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QUOTATIONS FROM WILL CARLETON. 

SOME men were born for great things, 
Some were born for small; 
Some — it is not recorded 

Why they were born at all." 

— Uncle Sammy. 

"The sun went down as it used to do, 
And sunk in the sea of night ; 

The two bright stars that we called ours 
Came slowly unto my sight; 

But the one that was mine went under a 
cloud — 
Went under a cloud, alone; 

And a tear that I wouldn't have shed for 
the world, 
Fell down on the old gray stone." 
— The House Where We Were Wed. 

"The flowers of true love never grew 
In the soil of a faithless heart." 

— Three Links of a Life. 

"Here's a precept, young man, you should 

follow with care; 
If you're courting a girl, court her honest 

and square." 

— The Three Lovers. 

"Sing me a song, my Alice, and let it be 

your choice, 
So as you pipe out plainly, and give me 

the sweet o' your voice; 
An' it be not new-fashioned, the new-made 

tunes be cold, 
An' never awake my fancy like them 

that's good an' old." 

— The Song of Home. 

"There is a joy in sturdy manhood still ; 
Bravery is joy; and he who says / Will, 
And turns, with swelling heart, and dares 

the fates, 
While firm resolve upon his purpose waits, 
Is happier for the deed." 

— Rifts in the Cloud. 

"If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fel- 
low knows it when 



He's been away from home awhile, and 
then gets back again." 

— Goin Home Todav. 

"There's nothing, to the wanderer's taste, 
Like food where mother's hand is traced ; 
There's nothing to the wanderer's look, 
Like food her cunning hand can cook." 
— How Jamie Came Home. 

"Laughing words and peals of mirth 
Long are changed to grave endeavor ; 

Sorrow's winds have swept to earth 
Many a blossomed hope forever." 
— Apples Growing. 

"If you to me be cold, 

Or I be false to you, 
The world will go on, I think, 

Just as it used to do; 
The clouds will flirt with the moon, 

The sun will kiss the sea, 
The wind to the trees will whisper, 

And laugh at you and me." 

— One and Two. 

"He who will creep about some great 

man's feet, 
The honeyed fragrance of his breath to 

meet, 
Or follow him about with crafty plan, 
And cringe for smiles and favors, is no 



man. 



-Rifts in the Cloud. 



"The rarest fruitage is the last to fall ; 
The strongest language hath no words at 
all." 

— Brothers and Friends. 

"Poets are good for somethin', so long as 

they stand at the head ; 
But poetry's worth whatever it fetches in 

butter an' bread. 
An' many a time I've said it ; it don't do 

a fellow credit 
To starve with a hole in his elbow, an' be 

considered a fool, 
So after he's dead the young ones'll speak 

his pieces in school." 
— Tom Was Goin for a Poet. 



CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS. 



293 



'Then forward, men and women ! let the 

bell 
Of progress echo through each wakened 

mind ! 
Let the grand chorus through our numbers 

swell — 
Who will not hasten shall be left behind !" 

— Forward. 

"Fast asleep the boys are lying, in their 

low and narrow tents, 
And no battle-cry can wake them, and no 

orders call them hence ; 
And the yearnings of the mother, and the 

anguish of the wife, 
Cannot, with their magic presence, call 

the soldier back to life." 

— Our Army of the Dead. 

" 'Twas a mournful sight in the day-twi- 
light, 
This thing of humble seeming, 
That once so proud o'er the cheering crowd 

Had carried its colors gleaming; 
Stained with mould were the braids of 
gold 
That had flashed at the sun-ray's kiss- 
ing, 
Of faded hue was its field of blue, 

And some of the stars were missing." 
— Mending the Old Flag. 

"Yes, a deal has happened to make this old 

house dear: 
Christenin's, funerals, weddin's — what 

haven't we had here ? 
Not a log in this buildin' but its memories 

has got, 
And not a nail in this old floor but touches 

a tender spot." 

— Out of the Old House, Nancy. 

"As oft as winter comes summer, as sure 

as night comes day, 
And as swift as sorrow cometh, so swift 

it goeth away!" 

— Three Links of a Life. 

"Remember there are years to come, and 
there are thorus of woe 



That you may grasp if one;' you let the 
flowers of true love go." 

— Rob, the Pauper. 

"Say! when ye come from heaven, my lit- 
tle namesake dear, 

Did ye see, 'mongst the little girls there, a 
face like this one, here ? 

That was yer little sister — she died a year 
ago, 

An' all of us cried like babies when they 
laid her under the snow." 

— The Christmas Baby. 

1 'Twas morn in the desolate city, 
The ragged and ruin-heaped city, 
The homeless and hot-smoking city, 
The grief of the North and the West." 
— The Burning of Chicago. 

"The smoke of our cannon has sailed 
away; 
The clouds are gone and the sky is clear. 
Heaven looks from eternal heights to-day, 
And finds that the nation still is here. 
The North and the South, the East and 
the West, 
The dead, the living, all agree 
That this shall be the grandest — best — 
Of all the nations that time can see." 
— Our Guests Unseen, 

"God has undiscovered ways 

Here within his narrow portals; 

Oh, they puzzle even the gaze 
Of the wisest of immortals !" 
— The Festival of Family Reunion. 



QUOTATIONS FROM ALICE CARY. 

ND when the arrows of sunset 
Lodged in the tree-tops bright, 
He fell, in his saint-like beauty, 
Asleep by the gates of light," 

— Pictures from Memory. 

"For whatever men say in blindness, 
And spite of the fancies of youth, 

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, 
And nothing so royal as truth." 

^—Nobility, 



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"For bright as brightest sunshine 

The light of memory streams 
Bound the old-fashioned homestead, 

Where I dreamed my dream of dreams." 
— The Old Homestead. 

"A lady, the loveliest ever the sun 

Looked down upon you must paint for 
me; 
Oh, if I only could make you see 

The clear blue eyes, the tender smile, 
The sovereign sweetness, the gentle grace, 
The woman's soul, and the angel's face 

That are beaming on me all the while, 
I need not speak these foolish words ; 
Yet one word tells you all I would 
say,— 
She is my mother, — you will agree, 
That all the rest is thrown away." 

— An Order for a Picture. 

"The ant is hard at work, and everywhere 

The bee is balanced on her wings so 

brown ; 

And the black spider on her slender stair 

Is running down and up, and up and 

down." 

— May Verses. 

"Don't be afraid, boys, to whistle loud and 

long, 
Altho' your quiet sisters may call it rude 

or wrong." 

— The Boys. 

"Our homestead had an ample hearth, 

Where at night we loved to meet ; 
There my mother's voice was always kind, 

And her smile was always sweet; 
And there I've sat on my father's knee, 

And watched his thoughtful brow, 
With my childish hands in his raven 
hair, — 
That hair is silver now ! 
But that broad hearth's light, oh, that 
broad hearth's light! 
And my father's look, and my mother's 
smile, 
They are in my heart to-night." 

—The Old Homestead. 



"Where are they now, the dreams we 
dreamed, 
The scattered sunshine o'er us, 
And where the hills of flowers that seemed 
A little way before us?" 

— My Brother. 

"And if we live as God has given us 
power, 
Heaven has begun; no blind fatality 
Can shut the living soul from its high 
dower 
Of shaping out a glorious destiny." 
— Heaven On Earth. 

"Blest is his life who to himself is true, 
And blest his death — for memory, when 
he dies, 
Comes, with a lover's eloquence, to renew 
Our faith in manhood's upward ten- 
dencies." 

— Hymn of The True Man. 

"The path going down to the apple-tree, 
still 
Winds over the slope of the meadow ; 
The dear little cabin peeps over the hill — 
But the roses run wide in its shadow." 
— Lost Dillie. 

"Shrink not away from the common and 

lowly — 
Good deeds, though ever so humble, are 

holy; 
And though the recompense fall to thee 
slowly, 
Heroes unnumbered before thee have 
trod ; 
By the sweet light of their blessed ex- 
ample, 
Work on, — the field of love's labor is am- 
ple — 
Trusting humanity, trusting in God!" 

— Missive. 

"For the human heart is the mirror 
Of things that are near and far ; 

Like the wave that reflects in its bosom 
The flower and the distant star." 

—The Time To Be. 



book: vi. 



A HIGH ORDER OF 



MISCELLANEOUS ENTERTAINMENTS 



FOR CLUBS, PARTIES, SOCIALS. 



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Ai HEEE is to-day a great demand for 
pleasant, dignified and entertaining 
amusements for young people's parties, 
church socials and social clubs. The fol- 
lowing we believe will meet the require- 
ments. The writer has used them in her 
own home and church with wonderfully 
pleasing effect. The interest is enhanced 
by the reward of a prize which may or 
may not be offered, as one prefers. 

These games take the place, to a cer- 
tain extent, of the common Euchre Cards 
which have such an element of chance 
and association in them as to bear dis- 
couragement. 

GUESSING GAME. 

(Let some one ask aloud the following 
questions, giving each guesser only one 
opportunity to answer. The one that an- 
swers the most should be awarded a 
prize.) 

What animal does the Bible refer to 
when speaking of our inability to change 

our natures, saying, "Can the change 

its spots V Leopard. 

Our house pet, the cat, has a beautiful 
yet terrible relative found wild in Asia. 
What is it ? Tiger. 

What bird has a relative in Iceland that 
furnishes a material so very elastic that 
two pounds of it may be held in the palm 



of the hand, yet will swell out to fill a 
comfortable ? Duck. 

What bird is named after the Apostle 
Peter, because of its seeming ability to 
walk upon the water % Petrel. 

What bird with ability to see best at 
night was . anciently believed to fore- 
shadow evil ? Owl. 

What two quadrupeds are more faithful 
to man than are any other animals ? 

Dog and horse. 

What creature of the feathered tribe, 
possessing traits similar to an unpopular 
man, is the subject of a celebrated poem 
by Poe? Raven. 

What animal, fed upon moss, becomes 
horse, food and raiment to the Laplander ? 

Reindeer. 

What bird is looked upon as a sort of 
beau among the feathered kingdom ? 

Blue Jay. 

What bird suddenly arises from the un- 
derbrush with a whirring sound, and is 
sought far and near for its delicacy of 
flesh? Quail. 

What creature is considered the most 
charming of all the insects ? 

Butterfly. 

What loathsome creature has a wing un- 
like that of any other species ? Bat. 



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MISCELLANEOUS EXTEBTAWMEXTB. 



What insect has a relative so beautiful 
as to be deemed by man worthy of setting 
in gold for rings and brooches ? 

Beetle. 

What mammal of the sea has a broad 
tail set transversely to its body? 

Whale. 

What bird makes a peculiar two-syllable 
sound which has been imitated in Swiss 
clocks ? Guckoo. 

What bird is generally pictured as 
standing upon one leg ? Stork. 

To scare what pest away do farmers 
dress poles as men and place them in their 
grain fields and orchards? Crow. 

What bird is often pictured carrying in 
its pouch a fish, upon which to feast when 
necessary ? Pelican. 

What large bird of prey soars solitary 
to heights of perpetual snow ? Condor. 

What creature was once said to possess 
a jewel in its head ? Toad. 

What animal bears a considerable re- 
semblance to man? Gorilla. 

What bird is made familiar to the little 
folks by the tale of "Babes in the Wood" ? 

Eobin. 

What bird, a rival of the nightingale, 
can so imitate the notes of other birds as 
to deceive sportsmen ? Mocking-bird. 

What bird of Patagonia, now almost 
extinct, hatches its eggs by holding them 
between its thighs ? Penguin. 

What bird has been adopted as the na- 
tional emblem of the United States, and 
appears on all its banners and coins ? 

Eagle. 

What animal has a name so capable of 
different spelling as to make it on various 
occasions indicative of affection ? 

Deer. 

What animal, that kneels to be loaded, 
Las a stomach in which water can be stored 
for days \ Camel. 



What king among animals was Once Con- 
sidered the type of great courage, but has 
been found to show indolence, and seldom 
attacks man unless hungry ? Lion. 

The fur of what animal is used to adorn 
the robes of kings and English judges, 
signifying incorruption ? Ermine. 

What creature, one species of which 
digs a burrow, lines it with a silken web, 
and makes to it a circular trap door with 
an ideal hinge? Spider. 

What bird can stand motionless for 
hours and watch with patience for fish 
upon which it feeds ? Heron. 

The nest of what variety of bird is con- 
sidered a great delicacy in China ? 

Swallow. 

What fish, canned in immense quanti- 
ties, is caught in the Penobscot and Co- 
lumbia Rivers ? Salmon. 

What bird is universally admired and 
always associated with honeysuckles ? 

Humming-bird. 

What bird of the ocean clings to Great 
Salt Lake, appearing as though left there 
from the time it was an inland sea ? 

Sea-gull. 

What insect, at work in millions, will 
boldly march into a river, and with their 
dead bodies form a bridge for their com- 
panions ? Locust. 

What insect is considered to be the most 
generally distributed over the globe of any 
living creature ? Fly. 

What animal makes a perfect system of 
sub-soil drainage, and is said to work three 
hours, and then to rest three hours ? 

Mole. 

What little marine creature has neither 
head, heart, feet, nor lungs, yet has built 
structures used for jewelry, also islands ? 

Coral. 

What serpent takes its name from its 
method of killing its prey by squeezing? 
Boa. Constrictor, 



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The hide of what animal makes the ex- 
cellent leather for saddles, and its bristles 
excellent material for brushes? 

Hog. 

What creature, thriving best on the 
white mulberry tree, makes a thread of 
pure white, yellow, or yellowish white 
hue, according to variety ? Silk-worm. 

What animal carries wood and water 
for poor Mexican families, and transports 
men over dizzy heights with steady step ? 

Burro. 

What animal has been the main hero of 
fable writers in all ages? Fox. 

What strikingly beautiful animal is the 
tallest of all ruminants, and found wild 
only in portions of Africa ? Giraffe. 

What bird is everywhere celebrated fo^ 
its grace? Swan. 

What animal builds its houses of mud, 
in conical form, two feet high, with an en- 
trance under water and a dry sleeping 
room above ? Muskrat. 

What animal never walks, but simply 
hooks its claws over a limb and passes 
from branch to branch and tree to tree ? 

Sloth. 

The young of what leaping animal are 
carried and nourished in a pouch upon 
the mother's body until able to care for 
themselves ? Kangaroo. 

What wading bird returns year after 
year to the same marshes to lay its eggs ? 

Crane. 

What bird, noted for its speed, size and 
strength, as well as the beauty of its 
feathers, is said to think itself hidden 
when its head is buried in the sand ? 

Ostrich. 

What reptile, by its power and size, 
rules the rivers of the South as the shark 
the sea ? Crocodile. 

What busy insects are ruled by a queen, 
for whom they show great respect and 
devotion ? Bee, 



From what animal is hair obtained, 
used in mixing mortar, hide for making 
leather, and the hoof for making glue \ 

Cow. 

What bird is so notably proud of its 
dress that to say "vain as a " has be- 
come a proverb ? Peacock. 

What troublesome marine creature at- 
taches itself to almost all submerged ob- 
jects s Barnacle. 

What quadruped, having short silvery 
white fur on the neck and fine, long sil- 
very hair on its back, is much sought after 
because of its skin ? Polar Bear. 

The hind legs of what reptile are con- 
sidered a great delicacy ? Frog. 

What creature is said to be the oldest 
paper manufacturer in the world? 

Wasp. 

What creature has been used to typify 
the resurrection, because of its long sleep 
and glorious awakening to a more beauti- 
ful life ? Caterpillar. 

What bird says plainly the words which 
have given it its name ? 

Whip-poor-will. 

What animal frequently ruins young 
trees by nibbling the trunks or the green 
shoots on the top boughs? 

Squirrel. 

What bird is so valued for its feathers 
that the tame ones are plucked several 
times a year? Goose. 

What creature is a common nuisance to 
the farmer, merchant, sailor and house- 
keeper ? Rat. 

What sea-bird can fly for days together 
without rest, rarely flapping its wings ? 

Albatross. 

To the young of what bird is dampness 
fatal until they grow feathers ? Turkey. 

What dreaded quadruped will follow 
armies and prowl over battle-fields for 
bodies ? Hyena, 



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Of what insect does the Bible make 
mention when it warns man against laying 
up treasures where it and rust can cor- 
rupt ? Moth. 

What insect-eating animal will devour a 
snake as one would eat an onion, begin- 
ning at the tail \ Hedgehog. 

What sea creature has a distinct place 
in the composition of salads ? Lobster. 

What fish, dreaded by sailors, causes 
such destruction among fishes as to be 
called "the pirate of the finny tribe" ? 

Shark. 

What insect sings a happy song just be- 
fore it bites ? Mosquito. 

What animal was the first domesticated 
and been made profitable ever since ? 

Sheep. 

What animal is gifted with amazing 
powers of leaping, climbing and swing- 
ing ? Monkey. 

What beautiful quadruped has stripes 
running almost at right angles to that part 
of the body on which they occur % Zebra. 

What bird in middle ages did the work 
of the telegraph to-day ? 

Carrier Pigeon. 

What animal was once plentiful upon 
the great Western prairies, but is now al- 
most extinct? Buffalo. 

What bird begins its song long before 
sunrise in the summer, and hence is 
quoted as an example of early rising ? 

Sky-lark. 

What insect, mentioned in Proverbs, 
did Solomon advise the sluggard to go to 
for lessons ? Ant. 

What intelligent and beautiful animal 
belongs to the only family having an un- 
divided hoof ? Horse. 

What animal has a delicate sort of hand 
at the end of its probosis, enabling it to 
pick a blade of grass or take a crumb 
from the floor ? Elephant. 



What bird, because of its beautiful col- 
oring, has received a name worthy to be 
compared with the inhabitants of Heaven ? 
Bird of Paradise. 

What white bird, with red wings, of the 
goose family, on account of its long legs, 
is unable to sit on its nest % Flamingo. 

What burrowing animal, clad in a coat 
of mail, feeds upon insects and vegeta- 
bles ? Armadillo. 

From what animal did the first settlers 
of ISTew England fence in their cattle at 
night in order to protect them? 

Wolf. 

What creature, though it may weigh 
500 pounds, cannot turn over when 
placed upon its back, and is thus made 
helpless ? Turtle. 

What animal is greatly valued in the 
chase ? Greyhound. 

What animal produces extremely val- 
uable fur, and hence sometimes involves 
nations in disputes regarding its fisheries ? 

Seal. 

What deadly reptile is often killed for 
its oil, deemed a cure for pestilence ? 

Rattlesnake. 

What animal's skin, when dressed, is 
preferred by jewelers to anything else for 
polishing gold, silver and glass ? 

Chamois. 

What bird builds* with threads and 
strings, a purse-shaped nest, hangs it from 
a branch of a tree, and fastens it with 
twine ? Baltimore Oriole. 

What bird surpasses all others . in its 
ability to imitate human speech ? 

Parrot. 

What bird, noted for its gentleness and 
peace, has been the accepted type of 
wedded devotion, because of its loyalty to 
its mate ? Dove. 

What bird, celebrated for its beauty of 
plumage and song, came from the islands 
that bear its name ? Canary. 



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What fur-producing animal has earned 
a reputation of which a boy might be 
proud, for the wonderful building instinct 
it displays ? Beaver. 

The life of what animal is often saved 
on account of its ability to feign death ? 

Opossum. 



GAME OF AUTHORS. 

Who Wrote Them, and What Are They? 

(The questions can be asked and an- 
swered as in the guessing game. Excellent 
to refresh one's memory on authors.) 

Apostle's Creed ? 

A Summary of Christian belief, com- 
piled by the early churches. 

Arabian Nights? 

A collection of Oriental Tales, trans- 
lated by E. Lane. 

Augsburg Confession ? 

Exposition of the Lutheran faith elab- 
orated, by Philip Melanchthon with ap- 
proval of Luther — presented to German 
Emperor Charles V ., and read at the Diet 
of Augsburg, June 25th, 1580. 

Course of Time, The ? 
Standard Poem, Robert Pollolc. 

Cosmos ? 

Last great work of the naturalist Alex- 
ander von Humboldt. 

Battle Cry of Freedom? 
Hymn {Civil War, 1861-5), G. F. 
Boot. 

Dixie? 

Southern melody, Dan. Emmet. 

Declaration of Independence? 
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson. 

Evangeline ? 

A Tale of Arcadia, H. W. Longfellow. 

Faust? 
Tragedy, Goethe. 

Fool's Errand ? 

Novel of the Civil War, A. W. Tourges. 



Gates Ajar ( 

Religious fiction, E. S. Phelps. 

Gil Bias? 

Novel, A lain Bene Le Sage. 

Gloria Patria? 
A Doxology. 

Goodie Two-Shoes ? 

Nursery story, Oliver Goldsmith. 

Hiawatha ? 

Poem, H. W. Longfellow. 

Highland Mary? 
Poem, Bobert Burns. 

Innocents Abroad ? 

Humorous Sketches, {Mark Twain) S. 
L. Clemens. 

Jane Eyre? 

Novel* Charlotte Bronte. 

Lady Geraldine's Courtship? 
Poem, E. B. Browning. 

Lalla Eookh ? 

Oriental Poem, Thomas Moore. 

As You Like It ? 

A Play, Shakespeare. 

Love's Labor Lost? 
Comedy, Shakespeare. 

Mazeppa ? 

Poem, Lord Byron. 

Les Miserables ? 
Novel, Victor Hugo. 

Caudle's, Mrs., Curtain Lectures? 
Humorous Papers, Douglas Jerrold. 

Never Too Late to Mend ? 
Novel, Charles Beade. 

Old Dan Tucker ? 

Southern Song, S. W. Foster. 

Paul Revere's Ride ? 
Poem of the Revolution, H. W. Long- 
fellow. 

Put Yourself in His Place ? 
Novel, Chas. Reade. 

Rab and His Friends ? 
Sketch, John Brown. 



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MISCELLANEOUS ENTERTAINMENTS. 



Reveries of a Bachelor ? 

Prose Sketches, D. G. Mitchell. 

Richelieu ? 

Historical Drama, E. L. Bulwer. 

Robinson Crusoe ? 

Fictitious biography, Daniel De Foe. 

Salmagundi ? 

Humorous work, W. Irving. 

Schonberg Cotta Family, Chronicles of 
the? 

Historical Novel, E. R. Charles. 

School for Scandal ? 
Comedy, R. B. Sheridan. 

She Stoops to Conquer? 
Comedy, 0. Goldsmith. 

The Spectator ? 

Serial Essays, Joseph Addison. 

Tales of a Grandfather? 
Child's History, Walter Scott. 

Taming of the Shrew ? 
Comedy, Shakspeare. 

Thanatopsis ? 
Poem, W. C. Bryant. 

Tom Brown at Oxford? 
Narrative, Thomas Hughes. 

Uncle Tom's Cabin ? 

Novel, based on Slavery, H. B. Stowe. 

William Tell ? 
Drama, Schiller. 

Ancient Mariner, The ? 
Celebrated poem, S. T. Coleridge. 

Atlantis, The New ? 
Allegorical fiction, Lord Bacon. 

Battle of the Books ? 
Satire, Dean Swift. 

The May Queen ? 

Lyric Poem, A. Tennyson. 

The Humble Bee? 

Lyric Poem, R. W. Emerson. 

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ? 
Poem, Lord Byron. 



Paradise Lost? 

Classic Poem, John Milton. 

Paradise Regained? 
Classic Poem, John Milton. 

Pilgrim's Progress ? 

A Celebrated Allegory, John Bunyan. 

Pendennis ? 

Novel, by Wm. Thackeray. 

Pickwick Papers ? 

Humorous Sketches, Charles Dickens. 

Don Quixote ? 

Spanish Romance, Cervantes. 

Rob Roy? 

Historical Novel, Sir Walter Scott. 

Vanity Fair ? 

A Novel, Wm. Thackeray. 

Vicar of Wakefield ? 
A Novel (Opera and Drama), 0. Gold- 
smith. 

Virgil? 

Latin Classic Poem, Virgilius. 

Wandering Jew? 
A Novel, John Gait. 

Waverley ? 

Historical Novel, Sir Walter Scott. 

Iliad? 

Greek Epic Poem, Homer. 

Bridge of Sighs? 
Poem, Thomas Hood. 

Old Mortality? 

Historical Novel, Sir Walter Scott. 

Universal Prayer? 
Hymn, Alexander Pope. 

Essay on Man ? 

Classic Poem, Alexander Pope. 

Septuagint ? 

A Greek Version of the Old Testament 
by 10 Translators, 280 B. C. 

Ritual ? 

An order of religious service or lodge. 

Talmud ? 

A book containing all the laws of the 
Jews (compilation). 



MISCELLANEOUS ENTERTAINMENTS. 



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Koran ? 

The Mahometan Bible, Mahomet, 
Shaster ? 

Book of religious instructions and pre- 
cepts of the Hindoos. 

Vedas ? 

Four ancient sacred books of the Hin- 
doos. 

Ben Hur ? 

A story by Lew Wallace. 

Aurora Leigh ? 

A poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 

Hamlet ? 
Shakspeare. 

Tales of a German Love? 
Story, by Max Muller. 

The Tempest? 
Shakspeare. 

The Scarlet Letter ? 
A story by Hawthorne. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona ? 
Shakspeare. 

Social Evolution? 

A study of world conditions by Ben- 
jamin F. Kidd. 

Wealth vs. Commonwealth? 

A study in social economics by Lloyd. 

The Merry Wives of Windsor? 
Shakspeare. 

The Control of the Tropics? 
An historic survey by Benjamin F. 
Kidd. 

The Christian Year? 
A poem by Keble. 

Western Civilization ? 
A study of the world's meaning by B. 
F. Kidd. 

Measure for Measure? 
Shakspeare. 

The Gentleman from Indiana? 
Booth Tarkington. 

The History of the English People ? 
Green, 



The Dutch Republic ? 
History by Motley. 

Old Curiosity Shop ? 
Dickens. 

Resurrection ? 

A Novel by Tolstoy. 

Wilhelm Meister? 

An educational story by Goethe. 

The Comedy of Errors ? 
Shakspeare. 

Lucille ? 

A poem by Owen Meredith. 

Quo Vadis ? 

A novel by Henry Sienkiewicz. 

Love Letters of a Musician ? 
A story by Myrtle Reed. 

In Tune with the Infinite ? 
Modern Thought, by Ralph Waldo 
Trine. 

John Foster — A Child of Nature ? 
Ideal story by Hamilton Mabie. 

Conquest of Peru ? 
Prescott. 

Much Ado About Nothing? 
Shakspeare. 

Nearer, My God, to Thee ? 

A poem written by Mrs. Gibson. 

Adam Bede ? 

A novel by George Eliot. 

A Midsummer Night's Dream ? 
Shakspeare. 

The Christian ? 

A Novel by Hall Caine. 

The Mill on the Floss ? 
George Eliot. 

What All the World's A-Seeking? 
Ralph Waldo Trine. 

The White Cross Library ? 
A series of books on the highest thought 
by Prentice Mulford. 

The Merchant of Venice ? 
Shakspeare, 



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MISCELLANEO US ENTER TAINMENTS. 



The Tragefy of King Richard III. ? 
A play by shakspeare. 

Romeo and Juliet? 

A drama of love by Shakspeare. 

Julius Caesar? 

An historical play, culminating in 
Caesar s death and the defeat of the con- 
spirators; written by Shakspeare. 

Macbeth? ; 

A tragedy by Shahspeare. 

What poem is deemed the finest in the 
English language ? 

The Skylark by Shelley. 

Timothy's Quest? 

A story by Kate Douglas Wiggin. 

The Choir Invisible? 

A novel by James Lane Allen. 

Audrey ? 

Novel, by Mary Johnston. 

The Kentucky Cardinal? 

A story by James Lane Allen. 



HISTORICAL GAME, 

OR 

QUERIES FOR BRIGHT STUDENTS. 

For Old and Young. 

(One hour spent in the putting of these 
questions and receiving their answers will 
give more real delight than a whole night 
spent in the ball-room. ) 

What are the most famous battle 
grounds of the world ? 
Marathon, LaTour, Waterloo, Gettysburg. 

What General of the U. S. made his 
headquarters in swamps and had but little 
food or clothing? Francis Marion. 

Who captured the British brig "Pea- 
cock" in fifteen minutes? 

Captain James Lawrence. 

Who was the first military Governor of 
the Philippine Is. ? Wesley Merrit. 

What General won his first fame by at- 
tacking and killing a she- wolf in her den ? 

Israel Putnam. 



What General was killed by his own 
men, who mistook him for the enemy ? 
Thomas J. Jackson, 

Who was the recipient of a costly and 
beautiful home in Washington, D. C., the 
gift of the American people ? 

George Dewey. 

Whose initials stand for the words "Un- 
conditional Surrender" ? 

Gen. U. S. Grant. 

For whom did the American people 
make a jubilee on his return from the 
Mexican war? Zachary Taylor. 

Name a General who was apprenticed 
to an apothecary, but ran away and en- 
listed as a soldier. 

Benedict Arnold. 

Who was "Mad Anthony" ? 

Anthony Wayne. 

What celebrated naval commander died 
of yellow fever at Trinidad ? 

Captain Oliver Perry 

Who sent the following message to 
President Lincoln: "I have the honor to 
present you with the city of Savannah as 
a Christmas gift ?" Wm. T. Sherman. 

What literary man was kept out of Sun- 
day school by his father through fear that 
he would come in contact with bad boys ? 
Frank B. Stockton. 

Whose book, "The Story of Patsey," 
has been published in raised letters for the 
blind? Kate Douglas Wiggin. 

Who was called the "Courtly Knight" ? 
Thomas B. Reed. 

Who was Washington's first aide-de- 
camp? Alexander Hamilton. 

What literary man, at the age of seven- 
teen, went to California and led a roving 
life for three years, and then wrote many 
Western dialect poems? 

Francis Bret Hartc. 

Who was Vice-President of the Confed- 
erate States of America ? 

Alexander Stephens. 



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What great Revolutionary statesman 
began his political career as tax-collector 
of Boston? Samuel Adams. 

What literary woman died on the day 
of her father's burial? 

Louisa M. Alcott. 

What two ex-Presidents died on the 
same day ? Thomas Jefferson 

and John Adams, July Jf, 1826. 

What naval hero in his first battle con- 
quered the British navy? 

Captain Perry on Lake Erie. 

What officer retired from the army only 
because forced to do so by old age ? 

General Win-field Scott. 

Xame a General who had three horses 
shot from under him at Winchester and 
was himself disabled by a severe wound ? 

Fitzhugh Lee. 

Who is known as "Mark Twain'' ? 

Samuel L. Clemens. 

Who was killed in a duel by Aaron 
Burr ? Alexander Hamilton. 

What great statesman made the ac- 
quaintance of Thomas Jefferson early in 
life and remained his firm friend ever 
after ? Patrick Henry. 

Who was the Indian leader in the 
Wyoming massacre? Brandt. 

What statesman graduated from 
Princeton College while his father was its 
President ? Aaron Burr. 

Who was "Old Rough and Ready" ? 
Zachary Taylor. 

What General sold honor for gold ? 
Benedict Arnold. 

Who was the "Silver-Tongued Orator" ? 
James G. Blaine. 

What literary woman began her career 
by teaching school in a barn ? 

Louisa M. Alcott. 

What General was nominated for the 
Presidency in 1864 but was defeated by 
Lincoln ? George B. McClellan. 



What was termed the "Battle of the 

Giants"? 

Debate between Webster and Hayne. 

What noted Indian chief was seized and 
sent to Pt. Moultrie while visiting Gen. 
Jessup under a flag of truce ? Oceola. 

Who was President of the Confederate 
States of America ? Jefferson Davis. 

The home of what author was called 
"Sunnyside" ? Washington Irving. 

What great Virginia statesman began 
his education under the instruction of his 
father in a school at home? 

Patrick Henry. 

Who is called the Daniel Defoe of 
American literature ? 

/. Fennimore Cooper. 

What great artist manufactured his own 
brushes by pulling hair from his cat's tail ? 

Ben]. West. 

Who is known as the "Apostle of Sun- 
shine and Cheerfulness" ? 

Chauncey M. Depew. 

What Indian defeated Gen. Custer and 
his troops ? Sitting Bull. 

With whom did a British officer once 
dine on sweet potatoes and water ? 

Francis Marion. 

What military man, when a child of 
eleven years, was taken on board the Essex 
by Commodore Porter in the rank of mid- 
shipman ? David Farragut. ■ 

Who was called "Stonewall" ? 

Thomas J. Jackson. 

What naval officer came into possession 

of a farm in Palmyra, N. Y., located on 

the spot where Joseph Smith claimed to 

have found the gold plate of prophecy? 

Wm. T. Sampson. 

What ocean is known as the "peaceful" 
ocean ? Pacific 

What Indian assassinated Gen. Thomp- 
son ? Oceola, 



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From what port did Columbus sail on 
liis voyage which led to the discovery of 
the New World ? Polos, Spain. 

Who lived at the place known as "Oak 
Hill" ? * James Monroe. 

What great artist painted the "Death 
of Montgomery" ? Trumbull. 

What was known as the "Swamp 
Angel"? 

A cannon planted on Morris Island dur- 
ing the siege of Charleston. 

What city was captured on Christmas 
night ? Trenton, N. J. 

What seaport is styled the "Queen of 
American Seaside Resorts" ? 

Newport, R. I. 

Which state of the U. S. has two cap- 
itals ? Rhode Island. 

What state is known as the "Granite 
State" ? New Hampshire. 

Where is the celebrated Newgate Pris- 
on ? London, Eng. 

What is the most beautiful river of Eu- 



rope 



Rhine. 



What great American statesman was 
born on the Island of Nevis, West Indies ? 
Alexander Hamilton. 

What country is known as the "Country 
of Windmills" \ Holland. 

What is known as "Hell Gate" ? 
A strait at the entrance of Long Island 
Sound. 

What battle was fought after peace had 
been declared? New Orleans. 

What noted colored orator and states- 
man was minister to Hayti in 1889-91 ? 
Frederick Douglas. 

Who was "Major Molly" ? 

Mary Pitcher. 

In what battle was the term used "We 
must beat the Bed-coats to-day or Betty 
Stark is a widow" ? Saratoga, 



What city has the honor of having es- 
tablished the first cod-fishery? 

Dorchester, Mass. 

What river is so choked by sand at its 
mouth that it has been necessary to dig a 
canal through the delta that it may be nav- 
igable ? Ebro, Portugal. 

Where is Eddystone Lighthouse? 
Off the coast of England, in the English 
Channel. 

What country is surrounded by moun- 
tains ? Switzerland. 

What city leads in fashion and art ? 

Paris. 

Who invented the electric light? 

Thos. A. Edison. 

Where is "sea island cotton" obtained ? 
Off the coast of South Carolina. 

What river has an annual overflow ? 

Nile. 

What country is noted for its pyra- 
mids ? Egypt. 

Where is the Eiffel Tower ? 

Paris, France. 

For what is Elba Island noted ? 

Napoleon s place of exile. 

What body of water is noted for its fine 
pearls ? Persian Gulf. 

What city is noted for diamonds ? 

Kimberley, South Africa. 

Who said "A pound of pluck is worth a 
ton of luck" ? James A. Garfield. 

What great man walked the streets of 
Philadelphia with a roll of bread under 
each arm, and eating a third ? 

Benj. Franklin. 

Who was "George Eliot" ? 

Marie Cross. 

What and where are the "Everglades" ? 
Swamps of Florida. 

For whom was the rank of Vice-Ad- 
miral first created ? David Farragut, 




BAEL EXERCISE. 

To develop the arms, shoulders and chest. 
(See department on "The Art of Attainment.") 




A GLORIOUS MORNING EXERCISE. 

Makes the sick well. 



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What General was captured while en- 
joying a Christmas banquet? 

General Ball. 

Who founded the first American libra- 
ry? Benj. Franklin. 

What was once known as the "Great 
American Desert" ? 

States west of the Mississippi. 

Who was "Octave Thanet" ? 

Alice French. 

Who is father of the School of Kinder- 
garten? Frederich Froebel. 

Who is termed "John Bull" ? 
A popular name given the English Gov- 
ernment. 

Who is termed "Uncle Sam" ? 
A popular name for the U. S. Govern- 
ment. 

Who said "In the name of the Great 
Jehovah and the Continental Congress" ? 
Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga. 

Where was "Libby Prison" ? 
Bichmond, Ya., during the Civil War. 

What was the great decisive battle of 
the Civil War? Gettysburg. 

What place is styled "Old Faithful"? 
A geyser of the Yellowstone. 

Name two English explorers who were 
half-brothers. Gilbert and Baleigh. 

Who was Jenny Lind ? 

A famous singer of Sweden. 

Over what American actress' tomb has 
an obelisk been erected which is an exact 
copy of Cleopatra's ? 

Charlotte Cushman. 

What is a custom-house ? 
The office in a port of entry where du- 
ties are paid. 

What great General lost his life in a 
battle on the Little Big Horn river ? 

George A. Custer. 

Who was the first bondsman to give bail 
for Jefferson Davis? 

Horace Greeley, 



Who invented the thermometer ? 

Fahrenheit. 

What beautiful city is divided into two 
parts by the Arno river ? 

Florence, Italy. 

For what is Stratford-on-the-Avon 
noted ? 

The birthplace of the poet Shakspeare. 

What country is ruled by a Czar ? 

Bussia. 

What is remarkable about the site of 
Ft. Sumter ? 

It is built on an artificial island. 

What famous man died at Long Branch, 
1ST. J. ? James A. Garfield. 

What woman was banished from the 
Massachusetts colony? 

Anne Hutchinson for witchcraft. 

What state is known as the "Prairie 
State" ? Illinois. 

What is called the "holy city" of the 
Mohammedans ? Mecca, Arabia. 

What state is known as the "Hoosier 
State" ? Indiana. 

What is the meaning of Costa Pica ? 
The rich coast. 

What poet's life was saddened by the 
death of his mother while he was yet a 
small child ? Wm. Cowper. 

What famous backwoodsman had for 
his life motto "Be sure you are right, then 
go ahead" ? David Crockett. 

What is known as the "Kensington Gar- 
den" ? 

Palace and ornamental parks, London. 

Who was the first white man to visit 
Kentucky? Daniel Boone. 

What state is styled the "Keystone 
State" ? Pennsylvania. 

Who first circumnavigated the globe ? 

Magellan. 

What is the most noted American gla- 
cier ? The Muir, of Alaska, 



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Name England's greatest statesman. 

Wm. Pitt. 

What Indian chief was captured and 
with his sons placed on exhibition in 
Eastern cities? Black Hawk. 

What statesman is said to never have 
been equaled as an after-dinner speaker? 
Chauncey M. Depew. 

Who was the "Sage of Monticello" ? 
Thomas Jefferson. 

Who was the "Little Giant" ? 

Stephen A. Douglas. 

What noted divine was called to the 
ministry of one of the largest churches of 
Boston before he was twenty years of age ? 
Edward Everett. 

What author, "with a knapsack on his 
back and a stout stick in his hand," made 
a journey through Europe on foot and 
afterward wrote a book entitled "Views 
Afoot" ? Bayard Taylor. 

What Indian chief was defeated in the 
battle of Tippecanoe? Tecumseh. 

Who was the "American Eabius" ? 

George Washington. 

Who was caned in Congress by Preston 
Brooks? Charles Sumner. 

What writer was known as "H. H." ? 
Helen Hunt Jackson. 

What Indian chief was killed by a 
faithless Indian for a bribe of a barrel of 
liquor ? Pontiac. 

Who was known as the "Pathfinder"? 
John C. Fremont. 

Who wrote a humorous history of the 
U. S. ? Edgar W. Nye. 

Who was the first signer of the Decla- 
ration of Independence? 

John Hancock. 

Who was the "Mill Boy of the 
Slashes" ? Henry Clay. 

Who was the "Bachelor Poet" ? 

John G. Whittier. 



What poet died an inebriate ? 

Edgar Allan Poe. 

What Indian kept a guard of 40 or 50 
warriors around him while he slept, and 
increased the number to 200 after the 
English settled Jamestown? 

Powhatan. 

Who was the "Sage of Concord" ? 

Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

What Indian chief was the grandfather 
of Thomas Rolfe? Powhatan. 

Who was "Old Hickory" ? 

General Jackson. 

Who was the author of "Home, Sweet 
Home" ? John Howard Payne. 

What father and son were Presidents ? 
John Adams and John Quincy Adams. 

What grandfather and grandson were 
Presidents ? 

W. H. Harrison and Benjamin Harri- 
son. 

What Indian gave to Roger Williams 
land in Rhode Island? Canonicus. 

Name our Presidents who have been as- 
sassinated. 

Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield 
and Wm. McKinley. 

Who is the "Hoosier Poet" ? 

James Whitcomb Riley. 

Name the most celebrated poet of Amer- 
ica. Longfellow. 

What Indian carried fresh venison to 
the Massachusetts colony during the 
"starving time"? Massasoit. 

Who wrote "Snow-Bound" ? 

/. G. Whittier. 

Who was called "The Poet-Painter"? 
Thomas Buchanan Reid. 

Who was known as "Honest Abe" ? 
Abraham Lincoln. 

What Indian woman was called "Lady 
Rebecca"? Pocahontas. 



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What poet was for a time engaged as 
a traveling sign-painter and actor ? 

James Whitcomb Riley. 

What noted sculptor when a boy made 
an angel in snow which called forth the 
admiration of all beholders ? 

Larkin G. Meade. 

Who was a son of the man known as 
"Light Horse Harry Lee" ? 

Robert E. Lee. 

What state is called the "Mother of 
Presidents" ? Virginia. 

Who was called the "Black Eagle" ? 
John A. Logan, because of his swarthy 
complexion. 

What city is located on seven hills ? 

Rome. 

What is the "Lone Star" State ? 

Texas. 

What President was forced to go to 
Washington in disguise ? 

Abraham Lincoln. 

What presidential campaign was called 
the "Hard Cider Campaign" ? 

That of 18^0, when W. H. Harrison 
was elected. 

What Indian chief was defeated by 
"Mad Anthony" Wayne ? 

Little Turtle. 

What statesman was called "Jack, the 
Giant Killer" ? John Randolph. 

What Indian's body was cut in four 
quarters and his head kept on a gibbet 
at Plymouth for twenty years ? 

King Philip. 

Who was "Old Man Eloquent" ? 

John Quincy Adams. 

What state is known as the "Nutmeg 
State" ? Connecticut. 

Who wrote "The Star-Spangled Ban- 
ner" ? Frances Scott Key. 

Whose dying words were "This is the 
last of earth ; I am content" ? 

John Quincy Adams. 



What state is known as the "Green 
Mountain State" ? Vermont. 

WTio was knowm as "Gail Hamilton" ? 
Mary Mapes Dodge. 

What statesman's wife worked and pro- 
vided the living for the family while he 
made speeches ? Samuel Adams. 

What Indian was instrumental in sav- 
ing the Massachusetts colony from the 
murderous hand of the Pequods ? 

Samoset. 

What distinguished Southern statesman 
was captured and imprisoned in Fort 
Monroe for two years ? 

Jefferson Davis. 

What Indian was employed as a mes- 
senger in the Revolutionary war ? 

Red Jacket. 

What commander during the battle of 
Mobile lashed himself to the rigging of 
his flagship that he might be better able 
to see and command his sailors ? 

Farragut. 

What great evangelist was the son of a 
farmer and stone-mason? 

Dwight L. Moody. 

In what college did the British soldiers 
make a stand during a battle until driven 
out by Washington? Princeton. 

Who said, "We have met the enemy and 
they are ours" ? Commodore Perry. 

What woman was called the "Daughter 
of the Confederacy" ? Winnie Davis. 

Who was pronounced the richest woman 
in America at the beginning of the 20th 
century? Hetty Green. 

What two English authors married sis- 
ters on the same day ? 

S. T. Coleridge and Robt. Soulhey. 

Who was called the "Boy Poet" \ 

Tlioma-s Chatterton. 

Who was the first poet to be buried in 
what is now known as the Poet's Corner. 
Westminster Abbey? Chaucer. 



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What author has been called the "Amer- 
ican Wordsworth" because of his love of 
nature ? William Cullen Bryant. 

What author was expelled from school 
for writing an article denouncing flog- 
ging? Robert Southey. 

What literary man was called the "In- 
terrogation Point" because of his de- 
formed body? Alexander Pope. 

What popular English author attrib- 
uted much of his success to the influence 
of his sister ? Wm. Wordsworth. 

What is the oldest university in the U. 
S. ? When founded ? Harvard, 1636. 

What author fell a victim to smallpox 
when but eight years of age so that his 
face was disfigured for life ? 

Oliver Goldsmith. 

What city is known as the "City of 
Brotherly Love" ? Philadelphia. 

What English author met his death by 
drowning? Percy Shelley. 

What author became totally blind be- 
fore his death? Milton. 

Whose administration was known as the 
"era of good feeling" ? 

James Monroe's. 

Who was called the "Great Irish Song 
Writer"? Thomas Moore. 

Who was the "Great English Story- 
Teller" ? Geoffrey Chaucer. 

What was the "Le Bon Homme Rich- 
ard" ? Vessel of Paul Jones. 

Who was it that styled himself "Poor 
Richard" ? Benj. Franklin. 

What author was known as the "Danish 
Boy" ? Hans Christian Andersen. 

What explorer was buried in the Mis- 
sissippi river ? Be Soto. 

Who was the organizer of the first For- 
eign Missionary Society in America ? 
Adoniram Judson. 



What is known as the Washington 
Elm? 

The elm tree under which George 
Washington took command of the colonial 
troops at the beginning of the Revolution- 
ary war. 

What noted divine first gave evidence 
of his unusual mental ability in a school 
debate when but eleven years of age ? 
Henry Ward Beecher. 

Who were the "Green Mountain 
Boys" ? 

Troops from Vermont under the leader- 
ship of Allen and Stark during the Rev- 
olution. 

What Indian entrenched himself in the 
"lava beds" of Oregon and battled against 
the whites? Captain Jack. 

Who was called the victor of Gettys- 
burg? Geo. B. Meade. 

Who said, "I always talk better when I 
lie" ? James Madison. 

Name three Presidents who died on the 
Fourth of July? 

Jefferson, Adams and Monroe. 

Whose last words were, "This is the 
Fourth of July" ? Jefferson. 

What is known as the "Golden Gate" ? 
The entrance into San Francisco Bay. 

What battle was preceded by prayer ? 
Bunker Hill. 

When was the first printing press es- 
tablished in America ? 

Cambridge, 1639. 

When was Lafayette the guest of our 
nation ? 

Monroe's Administration, 1821f. 



Whose home was called the "Hermit- 



age 



"2 



Andrew Jackson's. 



Who founded Salt Lake City? 

Brigham Young. 

What river signifies "River of Men" '{ 

Illinois. 



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What is the signification of Mississip- 
pi ? Father of Waters. 

In what year was the Atlantic cable 

completed? " I860. 

What is called the "Gate of Tears"? 
Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb. 

What is known as the " Smoky Moun- 
tain" ? Mt. Popocatapetl. 

What is known as the "Great Eiver" ? 

Bio Grande. 

What is known as the "Boat De- 
strover" ? The Amazon. 

What is known as the "Foaming 
Eiver" ? Ebro. 

What is known as the "Vale of Para- 
dise" ? Valparaiso. 

What is known as the "Black Moun- 
tain" ? Montenegro. 

What is known as the "Long Lake" ? 

Kennebec. 

What is known as the "Tortoise Isl- 
ands" ? Galapagos. 

Name the most celebrated tea party in 
America. Boston Tea Party. 

Who was "Timothy Titcomb" ! 

J. G. Holland. 

Where is the Great Natural Bridge ? 

Virginia. 

Name the oldest city in the U. S. 

Santa Fe, N. M. 

Who invented the cotton-gin ? 

Eli Whitney. 

Where is the cave known as the Mam- 
moth cave? Kentucky. 

What General arose from a sick bed to 
lead his troops to victory ? Gen. Wolfe. 

In what battle did the opposing gener- 
als each receive death wounds? 

Quebec. Wolfe and Montcalm. 

Who built the boat known as the "Yan- 
kee Cheese-Box" ? John Ericsson. 



What President lived but sixteen 
months after his election ? 

Zachary Taylor. 

What President was assassinated by a 
disappointed office-seeker ? 

James A. Garfield. 

What state of the U. S. is bounded by 
eight states? Kentucky. 

Name the thirteen original colonies. 

Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hamp- 
shire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New 
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dela- 
ware, Maryland, South Carolina, North 
Carolina and Georgia. 

What was the "Treaty Elm" ? 
The tree under which Penn made his 
famous Indian treaty. 

What fort was captured by a midnight 
assault? Stony Point. 

Who were the authors of the Constitu- 
tion of the IT. S. ? 

Hamilton and Madison. 

Who lived at "Idlewild" ? 

Nathaniel Parker Willis. 

What is known as the "Snow-clad 
Range" ? Sierra Nevada. 

What is known as the "Mother of 
Waters" ? Chesapeake. 

What is known as the "Lake of Abund- 
ance" ? Memphremagog. 

What is known as the "River of Joy" ? 
Guadiana, Spain. 

What is known as the "Wind Blown 
Cloud" ? Wabash. 

What is known as the "Mountain of 
Light" ? Lichtenfals. 

What is known as the "Rich Lake" ? 
Baikal, Siberia. 

What is known as the "Fruitful Moun- 
tain" ? Cerro Gordo, Mexico. 

What is known as the "Land of 
Dawn" ? Asia. 



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What is known as the " Swift Kiver" ? 
Tallapoosa, Ala. 

What is known as the "Prospect Moun- 
tain" ? Montevideo. 

What is known as the "Cat's Throat" ? 

Cattegat. 

What is known as the "Hollow Land" ? 

Holland. 

What is known as the "Koyal Mount" ? 

Montreal. 

What is known as the "Beautiful Isle" ? 
Belle Isle, Detroit River. 

What is known as the "Granite City" ? 
Aberdeen, Scotland. 

What country is lower than the level of 
the sea? Holland. 

What city is called the "American 
Athens" ? Boston, Mass. 

What country is known as the "Wheat 
Field of Europe" ? Russia. 

What is styled the "Key to the Medi- 
terranean" ? Gibraltar. 

What does the Vatican consist of ? 

A collection of buildings, among which 
are a museum, library, art galleries and 
the palace of the Pope. 

What city has streets of water ? 

Venice. 

What is the Maelstrom? 
A violent whirlpool on the coast of Nor- 
way. 

What is known as the "Giant's Cause- 
way" ? 

A group of rocks on the coast of Ire- 
land. 

What volcano is noted for having been 
thrown up in a single night? 

Jurillo, Mexico. 

What does the name of Vermont signi- 
fy ? Green Mountain. 

What does the name of Kentucky sig- 
nify ? Dark and Bloody Ground. 



What does the name of Ohio signify? 
Beautiful River. 

What does the name of Missouri sig- 
nify? Muddy Water. 

What does the name of Michigan signi- 
fy? Great Lake. 

What does the name of Florida signify ? 

Blooming. 

What does the name of Iowa signify ? 
Drowsy Ones. 

What does the name of Wisconsin sig- 
nify? Gathering of Waters. 

What does the name of Minnesota sig- 
nify? Cloudy Water. 

What does the name of Oregon signify ? 
Wild Margoram. 

What does the name of Kansas signify ? 
Smoky Water. 

What does the name of Nebraska sig- 
nify? Water Valley. 

Who said, "No man's vote is lost which 
is cast for the right" ? 

John Quincy Adams. 

Name the largest state in the U. S. 

Texas. 

Name the largest city in the world ? 

London. 

Name the smallest state in the IT. S. 
Rhode Island. 

Who invented the "lightning press"? 
Richard M. Hoe. 

What was erroneouslv termed "Ful- 
ton's Folly" ? Fulton's Steamboat. 

Who invented the electric telegraph ? 
Sam. F. B. Morse. 

Who made the celebrated "March to 
the Sea"? W.T.Sherman. 

What great man said, "A house with- 
out a baby is inhuman" ? 

Eugene Field. 

What poet saved "Old Ironsides", (the 
frigate Constitution) ? 

Oliver Wendell Holmes. 



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What President was married in the 
White House? Grover Cleveland. 

Which President was never married ? 
James K. Polk. 

What battle was fought before a stone 
wall ? Fredericksburg. 

Who built one of his war vessels in 
twenty days from trees growing on the 
banks of Lake Champlain? 

Commodore McDonough. 

Of whom was it said, "Providence left 
him childless, that his country might call 
him father" ? George Washington. 

Who was "Old Put" ? 

Israel Putnam. 

Who was the "Bayard of the South" ? 
Francis Marion. 

What city is known as the "City of 
Churches" ? Brooklyn, N. Y. 

What city is known as the "Hub of the 
Universe" ? Boston, Mass. 

What city is known as the "Monument- 
al City"? " Baltimore, Md. 

What city is known as the "Queen City 
of the Lakes" ? Buffalo, N. Y. 

What city is known as the "Garden 
City" I Chicago, III. 

What city is known as the "Queen 
City" ? Cincinnati, Ohio. 

What city is known as the "Forest 
City"? Cleveland, Ohio. 

What city is known as the "City of 
Straits"? Detroit, Mich. 

What city is called "Gotham" ? 

New York City. 

What city is called the "Crescent 
City" ? New Orleans, La. 

What city is known as the "City of 
Magnificent Distances" ? 

Washington, D. C. 

What city is called the "Mound City" ? 
St. Louis, Mo. 



What city is known as the "City of 
Elms" ? New Haven, Conn. 

What city is called the "Iron City" ? 
Pittsburg, Pa. 

What house is known as the "White 
House"? Why so called? 

The residence of the President at Wash- 
ington, D. C. It is built of freestone and 
painted white, hence its name. 

What is known as the "Mayflower" ? 
The ship of the Pilgrims. 

What is known as the "Half-Moon" ? 
The exploring vessel of Henry Hudson. 

What state is known as the "Old Do- 
minion" ? Virginia. 

Who was called the "Plumed Knight" ? 
James G. Blaine. 

Who was the author of the "Missouri 
Compromise" ? Henry Clay. 

What is "Dixie Land" ? 

A popular name for the South. 

Who said, "Don't fire till you see the 
whites of their eyes" ? 

Col. Prescott at Bunker Hill. 

Who issued the Emancipation Procla- 
mation ? President Lincoln, 1863. 

When were the first slaves introduced 
into the colonies? Virginia, 1619. 

When was the Declaration of Independ- 
ence signed? July 4, 1776. 

What was the first capital of the U. S. ? 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Name the Presidents who have died a 
natural death in office. 

Harrison and Taylor. 

Who said "God reigns, and the govern- 
ment at Washington still lives" ? 

James A. Garfield on the death of Lin- 
coln. 

Who was styled the "Great Pacifica- 
tor" ? Henry Clay. 



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What were the "Quaker Guns" of the 
Civil War ? 

Logs shaped and painted to imitate can- 
non. 

Who was the author of "Hail Colum- 
bia" ? Joseph Hopkinson. 

Of whom was it erroneously said, "He 
could not be kicked into a fight" ? 

President Madison. 

W T ho was the "Hero of New Orleans" ? 
Andrew Jackson. 

Who said, "I'll try, sir!"? 

Col. Miller, at Lundy's Lane. 

Who said, "A little more grape, Capt. 
Bragg" ? ■ Gen. Taylor. 

Who invented the steam engine ? 

Watt. 

What is known as the "Bridge of 
Sighs" ? 

A passageway leading from the Doge's 
palace, Venice, to the prison. 

Who was known as "Josh Billings" ? 
Henry W. Shaw. 

Who was known as "Boz" ? 

Charles Dickens. 

Who was the "Apostle to the Indians" ? 
Rev. John Eliott. 

What state is known as the "Bay 
State" ? Massachusetts. 

What city is known as the "City of 
Masts" % London. 

What was termed the "Cradle of Lib- 
erty" ? Fanueil Hall, Boston. 

Who was "Geoffrey Crayon, Esq." ? 
Washington Irving. 

What is known as the "Creole State" ? 

Louisiana. 

Who was called the "Learned Black- 
smith" ? Elihu Burrett. 

What state is called "Little Khody" ? 
Rhode Island. 



The navy of what country is called 
"The mistress of the seas" ? 

Great Britain. 

Who was "Oliver Optic" ? 

Wm. F. Adams. 

What state is known as the "Palmetto 
State" ? South Carolina. 

What is known as the "Pan-Handle" 
country ? 

Northerly portion of West Virginia. 

What country is known as the "Emer- 
ald Isle"? Ireland. 

What author of England was a great 
opium eater ? Thomas De Quincy. 

What is known as the "Eternal City" ? 

Rome. 

What was formerly called the "granary 
of Europe" ? Sicily. 

Who was called the "Great Unknown" ? 
Sit Walter Scott. 

Who was known as "Highland Mary" ? 
Mary Campbell, the sweetheart of Rob- 
ert Burns. 



Who was 
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known as the "Peasant 
Robert Burns. 



What state is known as the "Pine Tree 
State" ? Maine. 

Who was the "Sweet Swan of Avon" ? 
Wm. Shakspeare. 

Who was called the "Swiss Boy" ? 
Louis Agassiz. 

What was the "Charter Oak" ? 
The tree in which the charter of Con- 
necticut was said to have been hidden. 

Who on a stormy night, in a frail 
canoe, visited the Indians to save the lives 
of his enemies ? Roger Williams. 

. For what is "Craigie House" noted ? 
For being the headquarters of Wash- 
ington during the Revolutionary war; also 
for being the home of the poet Longfellow. 

Who said, "We will bag the fox to-mor- 
row" ? Cornwallis, 




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When and where was the first battle of 
the Revolution fought? 

Lexington, 1775. 

When and where was the first battle of 
the Civil War fought? 

Ft. Sumter, 1861. 

Who said, "Liberty and union, one and 
inseparable" ? Daniel Webster. 

During what campaign was the watch- 
word " Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" ? 

Harrison and Tyler, 181+0. 

What President had not voted for forty 
years previous to his election ? 

Zachary Taylor. 

What battle was fought during a fear- 
ful rainstorm? 

Island No. 10, Mississippi River. 

What General had a warhorse named 
"Whitey"? Gen. Taylor. 

What was the first battle of the Iron- 
clads ? Merrimac and Monitor. 

What brave woman saved the Declara- 
tion of Independence from being con- 
sumed by fire ? 

Dolly Madison during the War of 1812. 

What famous General lived at Arling- 
ton ? Gen. Robert E. Lee. 

Who was the "Rock of Chickamauga" ? 
General Thomas. 

Who said, "We will hold this town till 
we starve" ? Gen. Thomas. 

What engagement of the Civil War was 
known as the "Battle above the Clouds" ? 
Lookout Mountain. 

Who said, "Turn, boys, turn; we're 
going back" ? Gen. Sheridan. 

Who was the "Hero of the Towpath" ? 
James A. Garfield. 

What great musician played music of 
his own composition when but four years 
of age? Mozart. 

What state contains a mountain of 
iron ? Missouri. 



Who was the first Governor of Vir- 



ginia 



John Smith. 



The ruler of what country is styled 
"Mikado" ? Japan. 

What country is governed by a Shah ? 

Persia. 

What country is ruled by a Khedive ? 

Egypt. 

Against what President were impeach- 
ment proceedings instituted. 

Andrew Johnson. 

Who is the most famous painter of the 
world ? Raphael. 

Who is the most famous sculptor ? 

Michael Angelo. 

What noted General lost an arm in a 
cavalry charge against the City of Mex- 
ico ? Philip Kearney. 

Who are the most famous Generals of 
the world ? 

Miltiades, Alexander the Great, Julius 
Caesar, Hannibal, Marlborough, Napo- 
leon, Washington, Grant, Lee, Von 
Moltlce. 

What colony endured a panic called 
Salem witchcraft ? Massachusetts. 

Who was Illinois' most famous states- 
man ? Abraham Lincoln. 

Name the largest lake port of the U. S. 

Chicago. 

What famous poet was born in India? 
Rudyard Kipling. 

For what is the Klondike noted ? 

Gold fields. 

What American poet is honored in 
Westminster ? Longfellow. 

What great statesman brought about the 
confederation of Canada ? 

Sir John Macdonald. 

What one of Sir John Macdonald's 
great works had facilitated the union? 
The Canadian Pacific Railway. 



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What scientist discovered the law of 
gravitation ? Sir Isaac Newton. 

Who laid the first Atlantic cable and 
became the father of the system ? 

Cyrus Field. 

Who gave ns the first best commercial 
telephone ? Alexander Graham Bell. 

What Canadian statesman has made a 
great impression on the American mind 
from his power of genins and oratory ? 
Sir Wilfrid Laurier. 

Who invented the phonograph? 

Thomas B. Edison. 

Who discovered the circulation of the 
blood ? William Harvey. 

What does the word "vaccination" come 
from ? 

From the Latin "vacca," meaning cow. 

Who introduced the practice of vaccina- 
tion ? Edward Jenner. 

Who discovered the X-Ray ? 

Professor Roentgen. 

Who discovered photography? 

Daguerre. 

Who invented the locomotive ? 

Stephenson. 

Who established the theory of the solar 
system ? Copernicus. 

Who invented the fly shuttle ? 

John Kaye, of Bury, 1750. 

Who invented the spinning Jenny? 
James Hargreaves. 

Who invented the spinning frame? 
Richard Arkwright. 

What woman poet among the Greeks 
was famous for her love songs ? 

Sappho, 600 B. C, and famous also for 
beauty. 

What Emperor disguised as a workman 
learned the art of shipbuilding in the 
yards of Europe? 

Peter the Great, Czar of Russia. 



To whom did Gen. Cornwallis surren- 
der his sword ? 

Lafayette, a French General. 

What sovereign reigned longest over 
Great Britain and Ireland and the col- 
onies ? 

Victoria, justly regarded as a great 
woman. 

Who was the first Protestant reformer 
of Scotland ? 

John Knox, a strong, stern man. 

On what Reformer's model is the IT. S. 
Constitution thought to be patterned ? 
John Calvin's laws for Geneva. 

Who was the founder of Methodism ? 
John Wesley, who was an educator as 
well as a reformer. 

Under what Emperor did Rome be- 
come greatest in extent of territory ? 
Hadrian; bom 76, died 138 A. D. 

What pupil of Socrates gives us the best 
account of his life and teachings ? 

Plato; born 1+29 B. C, died 3J±7 B. C. 

Before what King did Paul make his 
defense.? Agrippa II. 

What Emperor took Jerusalem and de- 
stroyed it? 

Titus, after one of the bloodiest battles 
of history. He was born Jfi A. D. 

Who is deemed to be the first or chief- 

est saint of the Roman Catholic Church ? 

Peter, who is also called the first Pope. 

What Emperor is said to have set fire 
to Rome for his own pleasure ? 

Nero. Died 68 A. D. 

Who was in reality the first Emperor 
of Rome? 

Julius Caesar. General, statesman and 
writer; assassinated by Brutus and others 
U B. C. 

What Hebrew king was called the 
"Sweet Singer of Israel" ? 

David, who was musician, poet and m il- 
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What machine almost entirely super- 
seded Hargreave's spinning Jenny? 

The Mule: invented by Samuel Cromp- 
ton. 

Who gave the first modern power Loom 
to the world ? 

A clergyman, Rev. Dr. Edmund Cart- 
wright. 

Who first liquefied air ? 

Prof. James Dewar. 

Who discovered that the Swiss Glaciers 
were a frozen river? 

Prof. John Tyndall. 

Who invented the steamboat ? 

Robert Fulton, 1807. 

On what stream did Fulton first try his 
boat ? The Hudson River. 

Who proved that lightning and elec- 
tricity were one ? Franklin. 

Who invented printing ? 
John Gutenberg, born in Mainz, 11+10. 

Who was the apostle of prison reform ? 
John Howard. 

What is the Magna Charta ? 

The famous Charter of liberties, granted 
June 15, 1215, by King John of England 
to his subjects. 

What is the Habeas Corpus Act? 

A law made in 1679 reaffirming one of 
the clauses of Magna Charta. It prevents 
any person being placed, or kept, in prison 
on mere suspicion, and provides that any 
person arrested may be at once brought to 
trial by his peers. The act is occasionally 
suspended, but only in the gravest emer- 
gency; such as, treasonable conspiracy, re- 
bellion, etc. 

What was the first English Act of Par- 
liament relating to America ? 

The Newfoundland Fisheries' Act, 
passed in 1548. 

Where, when and by whom was the first 
English colony in North America planted ? 

Newfoundland, by Sir Henry Gilbert, 
in 1583, in the name of Queen Elizabeth. 



When and where was the first, contest 
between France and England in America i 

At Mount Desert in Acadia, or Nova, 
Scotia, now in the State of Maine, in 1613. 

If ow is Canada governed ? 

The Executive is vested in the King; 
the Legislative power in the Parliament 
of Canada. The latter consists of the 
Crown, the Senate and the House of Com- 
mons. The Senate consists of members 
appointed by the Crown for life. The 
House of Commons consists of members 
elected from each province and the terri- 
tories, in numbers bearing a due propor- 
tion to the population, for each Parlia- 
ment, which lasts, unless previously dis- 
solved, for jive years. The King is per- 
sonally represented in Canada by the Gov- 
ernor General, who holds office for five 
years, or longer, as may be expedient. The 
Ministers of State, forming the Privy 
Council, are responsible to Parliament. 

Name the oldest city in Canada. 

Quebec, founded in 1698 by Samuel de 
Champlain, the first successful settlement 
of the French in North America. 

What was the occasion of the rebellion 
of 1837? 

The people had outgrown the mere colo- 
nial system of government which then pre- 
vailed and attempted an insurrection 
which was finally crushed by the forces 
under General Sir John Colborne. 

What resulted from the insurrection of 
1837? 

An inquiry was instituted by the Im- 
perial authorities. Constitutional changes 
were inaugurated, and the Provinces of 
Upper and Lower Canada legislatively 
united in 181+1. 

When and why were the Provinces of 
Upper and Lower Canada changed to 
Provinces of Quebec and Ontario? 

In the year 1867 the names were 
changed in consequence of the scheme of 
the Confederation of the Dominion having 
been brought to a successful termination. 
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Ontario were the first to enter the new 
system. Since then, British Columbia, 
Prince Edward Island, Manitoba and all 
other territory north of the United States 
except New Foundland have entered the 
Confederation. 



FAITHS OP THE WORXD— WHAT ARE 
THEY? 

(This exercise is given especially for 
the elder people, although young people 
enjoy the knowledge it portrays.) 

Adventists % 

Adventists, or Second Adventists; See 
Millerites. 

Albright Brethren? 

Albright Brethren. Founded in 1803 
by Rev. Jacob Albright of Pennsyl- 
vania, a reformatory leader among the 
German Methodists. Armenian in theol- 
ogy, Wesleyan in sanctification, and Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church in government, 
mode of worship and itineracy of its min- 
isters. In the year 1808 they adopted the 
name of Evangelical Association of North 
America. 

Antimonians ? 

Antimonians. They hold that the Law 
was abolished by the Gospel; founded by 
Johann Agricola, a disciple of Luther, 
about 1525. He taught that good wOrks 
do not promote, nor evil hinder, salvation, 
as the Elect could not do anything that 
would prevent it. Luther was one of its 
strongest assailants. 

Arminians ? 

Arminians. Take their name from 
James Arminius, a virtual martyr during 
the persecutions by the Dutch Calvinists. 
They hold predestination is conditional, 
not absolute, and grace may be resisted 
and lost. The atoning work of Christ is 
not only sufficient, but intended for all. 
Held chiefly by the Methodists, a large 
portion of the Church of England and 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 
United States. 



Atheists ? 

Atheists. Those who deny the existence 
of God, and do believe in a Divine Being. 

Baptists ? 

Baptists. A body of Evangelical 
Christians differing from most Protest- 
ants in rejecting infant baptism, and 
maintain that immersion is the scriptural 
method. They are Calvinistic in doctrine, 
and have no creed, but appeal for support 
of doctrine to the word of God. The dif- 
ferences among Baptists are decreasing, 
and free will and free communion are re- 
ceived with more and more favor. First 
recognized in England by this name in 
1644. Roger Williams organized the First 
Baptist church in America, in 1639, at 
Providence, R. I. There are several lesser 
bodies of Baptists. The Freewill Baptists 
are Arminian. 

Brahmans ? 

Brahmans. They adopt the religious 
system of India, worship Brahma, believe 
in mythology and the eternal Spirit. The 
oldest of their sacred books are the Vedas. 
They recognize three Deities: Brahma, 
creator; Vishnu, preserver; Siva, de- 
stroyer. The doctrine of emanation, asso- 
ciated with transmigration, is the basis of 
their system; Brahma is the center and 
source of all things, and to whom all things 
return and with whom all things are ab- 
sorbed. 

Buddhists ? 

Buddhists. Believers in the Hindoo 
system of religion, prevails mostly in 
Thibet, China, Japan, Siam and Birmah. 
They believe that penance and sacrifice 
will create great merit in the next life. 
They teach no creation. They number 
more than one-fourth of the human race. 

Bible Christians? 

Bible Christians, or Bryanites, derived 
from Rev. William Bryan, of Cornwall, 
England, who left the Wesleyans in 1815. 
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Calvinisis ? 

Calvinists. Adherents of John Calvin, 
born in France, 1509, died in Geneva 
1564. Their distinguishing doctrines, 
termed the five points of Calvinism, are 
total depravity, election, limited atone- 
ment, effectual calling, and perseverance 
of the saints ; which doctrines are held by 
Presbyterians, Congregationalists and 
Baptists. 

Campbellites ? 

Campbcllitcs. See Disciples of Christ. 

Catholics ? 

Catholics. A name belonging to the 
whole Christian Church, but claimed by 
the Roman Catholics, and limited exclu- 
sively to them. "See Roman Catholics. 

Christians ? 

Christians, or Campbellites. See Dis- 
ciples of Christ. 

Christian Alliance? 

Christian Alliance. A religious organ- 
ization founded in New York City by the 
Rev. A. B. Simpson in 1887. Its mem- 
bership consists of "all professing Chris- 
tians who subscribe to its principles and 
enroll their names." Its objects are stated 
to be the "wide diffusion of the gospel in 
its fulness, the promotion of a deeper and 
higher Christian life and the work of evan- 
gelization, especially among the neglected 
classes by highway missions and any other 
practical methods." 

Christian Connection? 

Christian Connection. Founded in 
North Carolina, in 1793, by seceders from 
the Episcopal Methodists. They acknowl- 
edge no creed or discipline but the Bible, 
reject the Trinity, and yet call Christ a 
Divine Saviour. They are orthodox Uni- 
tarians in form of belief. 

Christian Science? 

Christian Science. The name of the 
founder of this religious body is Mrs. 
Mary Baker Eddy. About 1876 she be- 
gan to propagate the idea as a world force. 
She felt that she had received illumination 



and revelation of a new and advanced 
character. She claimed, with the idealistic 
philosophers, that matter had no real exis- 
tence, that the mind or spirit alone existed. 
Sickness, therefore, was only a delusion of 
the mortal mind. Scientists accept the 
Bible but wholly as interpreted by Mrs. 
Eddy. 

Christian Union? 

Christian Union Churches. This or- 
ganization was formed in Columbus, Ohio, 
in 1863. There is no creed. But they as- 
sert the oneness of the church with Christ, 
who is its only head. The Bible is their 
only rule of faith and practice. Each 
church is self-governed. "Good fruits" 
are the only condition of membership. 
They reported 200 ministers, 301 churches 
and 20,000 members in 1900. 

Church of England ? 

Church of England. Established in 
England, 1534. Belief contained in the 
Thirty-nine Articles. 

Church of God? 

Churcn of God, or Winebrennerians. 
One of the smallest Baptist sects in the 
United States. Founded by the Rev. John 
Winebrenner in 1829, in Pennsvlvania. 
Presbyterian in polity. Practice feet- 
washing as a positive ordinance, have 
great zeal, and are Millenarians. 

Church of Scotland? 

Church of Scotland. In doctrine Pres- 
byterian; it is supported by the govern- 
ment. In 1843 the Free Church seceded. 

Confuciusts ? 

Confuciusts. Followers of the state re- 
ligion of the Chinese, founded by Confu- 
cius, 478 B. C. Their theory of govern- 
ment is a paternal despotism, and the lead- 
ing feature of the system is based upon 
good works. Is ethical rather than re- 
ligious. 

Congregationalists ? 

Congregationalists. Called also Inde- 
pendents. Date from Robert Brown in 



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England, 1580. First planted in America 
by Plymouth Colony, in 1620. In doc- 
trine, Calvinistic, and differing from 
Presbyterians in form of government. 

Covenanters ? 

Covenanters. Scotch Presbyterians, so 
called from the National Covenant of 
1638. Its object being to maintain the 
Protestant religion in opposition to Ro- 
manism. The Reformed Presbyterian 
Church of Scotland now claim to repre- 
sent them. 

Cumberland Presbyterians ? 

Cumberland Presbyterians. The out- 
growth of a remarkable revival in the 
Cumberland Presbytery^ Kentucky, in 
1797. Discard extreme Calvinism. 

Deists ? 

Deists. Those who believe in the exis- 
tence of a God, but deny revealed re- 
ligion ; accepting no form of religion, but 
follow the light of nature and reason. 

Disciples of Christ ? 

Disciples of Christ, also Campbellites, 
also' Christians. Seceders from the Pres- 
byterian Church, led by Alexander Camp- 
bell, in 1812. Baptism by immersion. 
Their creed is the Bible. 

Dissenters ? 

Dissenters. A term generally applied 
to all those who are not connected with 
the Established Church of England. 

Dutch Reformed Church ? 

Dutch Reformed Church, also the Re- 
formed Protestant Dutch Church. 
Changed its title in 1867 to the Reformed 
Church in America. 

Eastern Church ? 

Eastern Church. (See Greek Church.) 

Episcopalians ? 

Episcopalians. All bodies which have 
the three orders of clergy, Bishops, Pres- 
byters and Deacons; comprising the Ro- 
man Catholic, Greek, Protestant Episco- 
pal, Methodist Episcopal, and Moravian 
bodies. Usually applied to the Church of 



England, and the Protestant Episcopal 
Church in the United States. 

Evangelical Association ? 
Evangelical Association. (See Albright 
Brethren. ) 

Established Church? 
Established Church. (See Church of 
England.) 

Fatalists ? 

Fatalists. Those who believe that all 
events must of necessity happen. 

Free Church of Scotland ? 

Free Church of Scotland. Presbyte- 
rians, seceded from the Established 
Church, in 1843, led by Dr. Chalmers. 
They believe in support from the govern- 
ment, but deny its right to rule. 

Freewill Baptists ? 

Freewill Baptists. Believe that it lies 
in the will to accept or reject Christ, and 
the possibility of salvation to men. They 
are Arminian in doctrine ; men and wom- 
en alike vote in business meetings. 

Friends or Quakers \ 

Friends, also Quakers. Founded by 
George Fox in England. In the course of 
his persecutions and ministry, 1660, he 
was brought before Justice Bennet at 
Derby, who first called them Quakers, be- 
cause Fox bade him tremble at the Word 
of God, quoting the words: "The earth 
shall quake/' etc. In their Church polity, 
they seek guidance of the Holy Spirit. 
They oppose war. 

German Reformed Church ? 

German Reformed Church. Followers 
of Ulric Zwingle. Calvinistic, adopting 
the Heidelburg Catechism, 1563. Known 
as the Reformed Church in the United 
States. 

Gnostics ? 

Gnostics. Began in the 1st century, 
flourishing till 150 A. D. Disappeared in 
the 6th century. They speculated about 
Creation, Sin and Redemption; taught 
that God was incomprehensible, that mat- 
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was a deception, not real, simply appear- 
ing to be human. 

Greek Church ? 

Greek Church. Claim to belong to the 
oldest church in Christendom, producing 
the first Christian literature and Bible 
Commentaries. This church still occupies 
the territory of primitive Christianity ; in 
doctrine is substantially that of the Latin 
Church (Roman Catholic), but more sim- 
ple ; differs on the procession of the Holy 
Ghost ; reject many of the dogmas of the 
Roman Church concerning the person of 
Christ. The membership mostly in Rus- 
sia. 

Heathens ? 

Heathens. Those who worship idols, 
and have a false knowledge of God. 

Hebrews ? 

Hebrews. (See Jews.) 

Hicksites ? 

Hicksites. Seceders from the Friends 
in the 18th century, led by Elias Hicks. 
They deny the miraculous conception, 
divinity, and atonement of Christ, the au- 
thenticity of the Scriptures. 

Hindoos ? 

Hindoos. (See Brahmans.) 

Huguenots ? 

Huguenots. The French Protestants of 
the 16th and 17th centuries. They were 
menaced by kings, and were at times rash 
and violent; suffered persecution, and in 
the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572. 
In 1598, 500,000 fled to different coun- 
tries. 

Independents ? 

Independents. Properly speaking, a 
term applied to Congregationalists of 
Great Britain. 

Infidels ? 

Infidels. Those who deny Christianity, 
and are skeptical regarding the Scriptures. 

Jesuits ? 

Jesuits. "The Society of Jesus." The 
most influential of the monastic orders of 



the Roman Catholic Church; zealous in 
Mission work. 

Jews? 

Jews. A name given to the Tribe of 
Judah after the secession of the ten tribe.-, 
975 B. C, and to the whole Hebrew peo- 
ple after the Babylonian exile. They be- 
lieve in God and the Old Testament, and 
are still expecting a Messiah. 

Latter Day Saints? 

Latter Day Saints. (See Mormons.) 

Latin Church? 

Latin Church. (See Roman Catholic.) 

Lutherans ? 

Lutherans. A church founded in Ger- 
many by Martin Luther. They differ 
from the Eucharist; also qualify Re- 
formed Church in the Predestination ; are 
Presbyterian in church government; be- 
lieve in the Trinity, the deity of Christ, 
and the Holy Spirit, the Fall of Man, the 
vicarious Atonement, and Justification bv 
faith. 

Materialists ? 

Materialists. Those who deny the exis- 
tence of the soul and maintain that the 

soul of man is mere matter like the bodv. 

«/ 

Mennonites ? 

Mennonites. A Baptist sect, organized 
in Holland by Menno Simons. Congrega- 
tional in polity ; baptize by pouring ; prac- 
tice feet-washing ; refuse to take oaths, and 
refuse to go into war. 

Methodists ? 

Methodists. A term of reproach applied 
in 1729 to an association of young men at 
Oxford noted for their piety. Among 
these were John and Charles Wesley. 

Methodist Episcopal ? 

Methodist Episcopal Church. The first 
church in America was organized in 1766 
in New York City. In doctrine and faith 
they are evangelical ; are Arminians, be- 
lieve in "Free Will," "Free Grace," and 
"Christian Perfection." Its strong feature 
is the itineracy under the supervision of 
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Methodist Episcopal Church South? 

Methodist Episcopal Church South. 
The Church was divided in 1844, because 
of the difference of opinion on the Episco- 
pacy and slavery. 

Methodist Protestant? 

Methodist Protestant. In 1830 several 
ministers in the United States seceded 
from the M. E. Church because opposed 
to Bishops and because the mother church 
refused lay representatives. 

Methodist, Wesleyan? 

Methodist, Wesleyan. A church origin- 
ated 1839 as the outgrowth of antislavery. 
They abolished episcopacy; theology 
strictly Arminian; and articles of Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church with considerable 
alteration. 

Methodist, New Connection ? 

Methodist, New Connection. Formed 
in 1797 in England by Rev. Alex. Kilham. 
They differ only in church polity; the 
people join with the clergy in government. 

Methodist, Calvinistic ? 

Methodist, Calvinistic. A body which 
resulted from the difference between 
Whitfield and Wesley respecting the Cal- 
vinistic doctrines. Wesley was Arminian, 
and Whitfield Calvinistic. After Wesley's 
sermon on "Free Grace" they pursued sep- 
arate though parallel lines of labor. Prin- 
cipally in Wales. 

Methodist, Primitive? 

Methodist, Primitive. Organized in 
England in 1810. In doctrine and disci- 
pline are Wesleyan. Seek to restore the 
primitive simplicity in dress, manners and 
living; encourage out-door preaching, and 
license women to preach; the laity share 
largely in the church government. 

Methodist Episcopal Church, African? 

Methodist Episcopal Church, African. 
A colored organization. Established in 
Philadelphia in 1816; they retain the 
features of the parent church. They with- 
drew because they felt themselves to be 
negroes, 



Methodist Episcopal Church, Zion, Af- 
rican \ 

Methodist Episcopal Church, Zion, 
African. Originated in New York City 
in 1819 by the secession of colored people 
from the African M. E. Church. They 
retain all the distinctive features of the 
parent church, but elect their bishops an- 
nually. 

Methodist Episcopal Church, Colored? 

Methodist Episcopal Church, Colored. 
Organized 1871 under the auspices of the 
M. E. Church, South. Do not admit white 
persons to membership. 

Millerites ? 

Millerites, or Second Adventists. The 
followers of William Miller, who declared 
the second advent of Christ would occur 
in 1843. His followers have set various 
times for the consummation of all things. 

Mohammedans ? 

Mohammedans. Those who hold the re- 
ligion founded by Mohammed about A. J). 
610. They believe, "There is no God but 
Allah," and that Mohammed is the 
prophet, and the Koran is the final revela- 
tion of God. The Mohammedans' moral 
code consists of prayer, almsgiving, fast- 
ing, pilgrimage, and war against infidels. 
They are fatalists. Their Bible en- 
courages Polygamy. 

Mormons ? 

Mormons, or Latter Day Saints. Orig- 
inated at Manchester, K Y., in 1830, by 
Joseph Smith; settled at Kirtland, Ohio, 
1831; joined by Brigham Young, 1832, 
and located at Nauvoo, 111., 1838 ; in 1847 
established themselves in Salt Lake City. 
Utah. They believe in special revelation, 
and in the perpetuation of miracles; bap- 
tize by immersion, and are polygamists. 
They believe in the Bible and the Book 
of Mormon, subject to revelations by their 
prophets. 

Moravians ? 

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Nestorians ? 

Nestorians. Adherents of Nestorius, 
patriarch of Constantinople in the 5th cen- 
tury, who was condemned as a heretic for 
teaching that the divine and human na- 
tures in Christ did not form one person- 
ality. Mary might be called the mother of 
Christ, but not of God. 

New Jerusalem? 

New Jerusalem Church, also Sweden- 
borgian. Founded in England by Eman- 
uel Swedenborg. They reject the doc- 
trine of the Trinity, Election, Predestina- 
tion, and Salvation by Faith alone, and the 
resurrection of the body. Swedenborg 
taught that all the ends of Divine Provi- 
dence are to bring men to a state of happi- 
ness. Only those go to Hell who volun- 
tarily reject the good. 

Oneida Community? 

Oneida Community, or Perfectionists. 
Organized at Putney, Vt., 1838, by J. H. 
Xoyes, and established in Oneida Co., N. 
Y., 1847. They taught reconciliation to 
God, salvation from sin, the brotherhood 
and equality of men and women, the com- 
munity of labor and its fruit, in which all 
men and women are in a sense married to 
each other. The community is now dis- 
solved. 

Oriental Church? 

Oriental Church. (See Greek Church.) 

Pagans ? 

Pagans. Those who worship false gods 
and practice idolatry. (See Heathens.) 

Pantheists ? 

Pantheists. Those who believe the doc- 
trine that the Universe is God; that God 
is the combined force and law of the whole 
Universe. 

Pharisees ? 

Pharisees. A sect among the Jews not 
now in existence. They were strict ob- 
servers of rites, ceremonies, and tradi- 
tions. Their narrowness and pretended 
holiness led them to separate themselves 



from the other Jews. Hence the name 
Pharisees or Separatists. 

Positivists ? 

Positivists. Those who maintain the 
philosophy of Auguste Comte. It deals 
with positives, or knowable things, with 
their relations of coexistence and succes- 
sion as found in time and space. Such re- 
lations are called Laws, discovered by ob- 
servation, experience and comparison. 
They do not worship God, but pay rever- 
ence to eminent benefactors of the race. 
Societies exist in France, England, and 
the United States. 

Polytheists ? 

Polytheists. They who believe in many 
Gods. 

Presbyterians ? 

Presbyterians. Those who hold to the 
government of the Church by Presbyterys, 
Synods, and Assemblies. The Reformed 
Churches of Europe, as distinguished from 
Lutherans, became Presbyterians. Mod- 
ern Presbyterianism is based on Calvin- 
istic doctrines, and dates from 1542. This 
is embodied in the standards adopted by 
the Westminster Assembly at London, in 
1643, by order of the British Parliament. 
First General Assembly in Scotland, 
1560; first Presbytery in England, 1572. 
First Church organized in the United 
States, 1684; in Canada, 1765. 

Presbyterian Church of North Amer- 
ica, United ? 

Presbyterian Church of North Amer- 
ica, United. A union of the Associate 
Irish and Scotch Covenanters and Asso- 
ciate Reformed Churches. "The Associate 
Presbyterian Church of the South" pre- 
serves a separate organization. A few 
Presbyterys of the Northern States did 
not join the union. This union was formed 
in 1858. 

Presbyterians, Cumberland ? 
Presbyterians, Cumberland. (See Cum- 
berland Presbyterians.) 

Presbyterian Church in America ? 
Presbyterian Church in America. Dates 



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from 1684 when the church was organized 
at Rehoboth, Md., by Francis Mackenzie. 
The first Presbytery was held at Philadel- 
phia in 1705. A Synod composed of four 
Presbyteries was constituted in 1716. At 
the meeting of the first General Assembly, 
May, 1788, the denomination had 17 Pres- 
byteries, 419 Congregations, and 180 Min- 
isters. The "Plan of Union'' with the 
Congregationalists was adopted in 1801. 
This provided for an interchange of pas- 
tors and churches. 

Presbyterian, Old and New Schools? 

Presbyterian, Old and New Schools. 
In 1837 the General Assembly abandoned 
the Plan of Union with the Congrega- 
tionalists, and in 1838 the two opposing 
parties of the Church separated into what 
was known as the Old and ISTew School 
Churches. They came together in 1871. 

Presbyterian Church, United? 

Presbyterian Church, United, Its pres- 
ent form dates from 1847 in Scotland. 
They differ from the Established and Free 
churches, urging that civil government 
should have nothing to do with the church. 

Presbyterian, Reformed, in America? 
Presbyterian, Reformed in America. 
(See Reformed Church in America.) 

Presbyterian, Reformed, in the United 
States ? 

Presbyterian, Reformed, in the United 
States. (See German Reformed Church.) 

Presbyterian Church in the United 
States ? 

Presbyterian Church in the United 
States. Was organized in 1861, on the se- 
cession of the Southern States, "holding 
that slavery is right and scriptural." 

Protestants ? 

Protestants. A name applied to the ad- 
herents of Luther, who protested, in 1529, 
before the German Diet at Speier on ac- 
count of the revocation edicts issued three 
years before the Roman Catholic States; 
hence the name. A name for all Christian 



denominations, in contradistinction to the 
Rom. Catholic and Est. Churches. 

Protestant Episcopal? 

Protestant Episcopal Church in the 
United States. Is based on the Church 
of England ; first organized in America, in 
Virginia, 1607 ; in doctrine orthodox, 
holding to the belief in the fall of the 
whole human family through Adam, and 
the atonement made by Christ to rescue 
man from its effects. (See Church of 
England. ) 

Puritans ? 

Puritans. The name given to English 
non-conformists, because they opposed the 
forms and corruption of the Church of 
Rome during the reformation under Henry 
VIII. They sought a simpler worship of 
God, and adopted the Calvinistic creed. 
During their persecution under the 
Stuarts, many of them emigrated to New 
England, 1620. It is estimated that one- 
third of the native population of the Unit- 
ed States are their descendants. 

Quakers ? 

Quakers. (See Friends.) 

Reformed Church in America ? 

Reformed Church in America. Known 
as the Dutch Reformed Church until 
1868. Presbyterian in polity, Calvinistic 
in creed. In doctrine it follows the Heid- 
elberg Catechism, and Canons of the Syn- 
od of Dort, 1618. 

Reformed Episcopal Church? 

Reformed Episcopal Church. This 
body seceded from the Protestant Episco- 
pal Church in 1873. The cause was that. 
the dominant party in the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church sought to mold and control 
that Church in the interest of medieval- 
ism, ritualism and denial of the brother- 
hood of believers in Christ. 

Roman Catholics ? 

Roman Catholic Church. A body of 
Christians which acknowledges the author- 
ity of the Pope of Rome, and make justi- 
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laid down in nineteen or twenty Ecumen- 
ical Councils, and the Bulls of the Popes. 

The Pope claims to be the universal 
bishop, the successor of Peter, the Vicar 
of Christ, and the visible representative 
ui Almighty God upon earth. 

Sadducees ? 

Sadducees. A sect among the ancient 
Jews, not now in existence, who denied 
the resurrection, a future state, and the 
existence of angels. Founded 150 B. C. 

Salvation Army ? 

Salvation Army. A religious military 
movement organized in 1878 by Win. 
Booth and his wife. 

Second Adventists ? 

Second Adventists. (See Millerites.) 

Seventh Day Baptists ? 

Seventh Day Baptists. A branch of the 
Baptists differing from the parent church 
in observing Saturday, the seventh day of 
the week, instead of the first, as the Sab- 
bath. 

Shakers ? 

Shakers. Derive their name from cer- 
tain rhythmical movements of the arms 
and feet, which form a part of their re- 
ligious service. They are opposed to war 
and marriage, believe they communicate 
with the spirits of the departed, that the 
millennium has come, and sing and dance 
in worship. Their doctrines are founded 
partly on the Bible, but mostly on revela- 
tions of Mother Ann Lee, their founder. 
They have eighteen communities in seven 
different States. 

Spiritualists ? 

Spiritualists. Believe in direct inter- 
course with disembodied spirits. Andrew 
Jackson Davis first put persons into a 
state of magnetic somnambulism in 1834. 
Spirit-rappings began at Hvdeville, !N". Y., 
I in 1847. 

Swedenborgians ? 

Swsdenborgians. (See ^Tew Jerusalem 
Church.) 



Theosophy ? 

Theosophy is a recent phase of occult 
religion based on the Asiatic thought and 
psychic phenomena. This form came into 
vogue in England and America through 
the leadership of Helen Blavatsky. 

(1) The philosophy is pantheistic; ev- 
erything is God and God is everything. Tie 
is good and evil; He is night and day; 
there is no evil, no good, no night, no day. 
All is one ; One is all. 

Tunkers ? 

Tunkers, or Bunkers. A branch of 
Seventh Day Baptists, founded in Ger- 
many, 1708. Emigrated to Pennsylvania 
1719. Baptize by trine immersion (plac- 
ing candidate forward instead of back- 
ward). Celebrate the Lord's Supper in 
the evening with feet washing; gives the 
kiss of charity ; when requested anoint the 
sick with oil. 

Unitarians ? 

Unitarians. Believers in the unity of 
God, and reject the doctrine of the Trin- 
ity. They deny the divinity of Christ, 
and of the Holy Spirit. 

United Brethren? 

United Brethren, or Moravians. Or- 
ganized 1457 in Moravia. Their polity is 
Episcopal. They are noted for piety and 
missionary zeal. 

United Brethren in Christ ? 

United Brethren in Christ (popularly 
called German Methodists). Organized in 
the United States in 1755, under Rev. 
Philip W. Otterbein. They combine Meth- 
odism, Congregationalism and Presbyte- 
rianism in polity, and expressly prohibit 
slavery, secret societies and the manufac- 
ture and sale of ardent spirits. 

Universalists ? 

Universalists. Those who hold to the 
doctrines set forth by James Kelly in Eng- 
land, 1750. Their belief (formulated in 
1803), that the Holy Scriptures contain 
a revelation of the character of God, the 
duty, privileges, and final destination of 
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nature is love, revealed in one Lord Jesus 
Christ by one Holy Spirit of Grace, who 
will finally restore the whole family of 
mankind to holiness and happiness. 

United Society of Believers ? 
United Society of Believers. (See Shak- 
ers.) 

United Presbyterian Church of North 
America ? 

United Presbyterian Church of North 
America. (See Presbyterians.) 

Wesleyan Methodists ? 
Wesley an Methodists. (See Metho- 
dists.) 

Winebrennians ? 

Winebrennians. (See Church of God.) 

Waldenses ? 

Waldenses. Followers of Peter Waldo 
of Lyons, France, who began to preach 
in 1173, and condemned as a heretic in 
1183. His converts were numerous in 
France, Italy, and Spain. Originally they 
were much like the Catholics, believing in 
the Scriptures and purity of life. In the 
15th century they denounced the Pope, 
and in consequence suffered great perse- 
cutions. During their persecutions toward 
the close of the 13th century they settled 
among the Alps mountains in Piedmont 
and Savoy, where they still remain. 



NUTS TO CRACK, 

OR 

WORDS THAT BREATHE AND 

THOUGHTS THAT BURN. 

(Who said them, and when or on what oc- 
casion.) 

Caesar had his Brutus; Charles I. his 
Cromwell, and George III. — "May profit 
by their example?" Patrich Henry. 

Better be first in a village than second 
in Home? 

Caesar, a Roman General and States- 
man. 



Let me die in my fatherland, which I 
have so often saved? 

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator. 

I would rather die for the liberty of 
Greece than be a monarch over my coun- 
trymen ? 

Leonidas, at battle of Thermopylae, to 
Xerxes. 

I will find a way or make one ? 
Hannibal, the Carthaginian, crossing 
the Alps. 

Give me a place to stand and I will 
move the world ? 

Archimedes, the philosopher. 

"Hereafter it will give you happiness 
to think of these things?" Virgil. 

Were there as many devils in Worms as 
tiles upon the roofs of houses, still I would 
enter ? 

Martin Luther, the great German re- 
former, the founder of Protestantism. — 
From a Roman Catholic he became 
the first and greatest of Protestants. 

I seal with my blood, my religion and 
the liberties of Germany? 

Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden. 

Put your trust in God, but, mind to 
keep your powder dry? 

Oliver Cromwell — To troops about to 
cross a river. 

"A word unfortunately spoken may be 
ruinous V* Bismarck. 

The crime makes the shame, not the 
scaffold ? Corneille, writer and wit. 

The king is not the nation's representa- 
tive, but its clerk? 

Robespierre — May 17, 1790. 

I have no more need of a sword, for I 
have no longer a country? 

General Kosciusko, declining an estate 
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There ! John Bull can read that without 
spectacles ? 

John Hancock — On the signing of the 
Declaration of Independence. 

]Jis tomb shall have the Alps for its 
pedestal and the monks of St. Bernard for 
its guardians ? 

Napoleon Bonaparte — On the death of 
Desaix. 

It is the cause and not the death that 
makes the martyr ? 

Napoleon Bonaparte. 

I heard the bullets whistle, and believe 
me there is something charming in the 
sound? Geo. Washington. 

The battle is lost, but there is time to 
gain another? 

General Desaix. 

To be prepared for war is one of the 
most effectual ways of preserving peace? 
Geo. Washington — Speech. 

First in war, first in peace, and first in 
the hearts of his fellow-citizens ? 

General Lee — Resolution on death of 
Washington. 

Liberty and Union, now and forever, 
one and inseparable? 

Daniel Webster, the greatest American 
orator. 

Distinct as the billows, yet one, as the 
ocean ? 

Daniel Webster, Union Speech. 

"But what has been done cannot be un- 
done?" 

Sir Wilfrid Laurier — Response to an 
after-dinner toast. 

"It is for you to decide whether our 
greatness shall be only temporary, or 
whether it shall be enduring?" 

John Bright. 

These are the times that try men's 
souls ? 

Thomas Payne, as a patriot. 

Now we must all hang together, or we 
shall be hanged separately? 



Franklin — Signing of the Declaration 
of Independence. 

Our Constitution is in actual operation, 
everything promises that it will last, but 
in this world nothing is certain but death 
and taxes ? Benjamin Franklin. 

The God that gave us life, gave us lib- 
erty at the same time ? 

Thomas Jefferson. 

We mutually pledge to each other our 
lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor ? 
Declaration of Independence. 

The Lord give thee a will and courage ? 
John Bunyan. 

All men are created equal ? 

Declaration of Independence. 

When my eyes shall be turned to behold 
for the last time the sun in heaven, may I 
not see it shining on the broken and dis- 
honored fragments of a once glorious 
Union, on States dissolved, discordant, bel- 
ligerant, on a land rent with civil feuds 
or drenched, it may be, with fraternal 
blood ? 

Daniel Webster — Reply to Haines. 

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or 
perish, I give my hand and heart to this 
vote? 

John Adams— jOn Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. 

A star for every State, and a State for 
every star? 

R. C. Winthrop — Speech. 

Don't give up the ship ? 
Capt. James Lawrence — Dying words, 
on board the frigate Chesapeake. 

I leave these words for others when I'm 

dead, 
Be always sure you are right, then go 

ahead ? 
David Crockett — Title page of Auto- 
biography. 

I know no North, no South, no East, no 
West? 

Henry Clay — Reply to taunt of South- 
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I would rather be right than be Presi- 
dent? Henry Clay. 

I hope to live to see the day, and if I do 
not, that my son may be spared to see Can- 
ada the right arm of England? 

Sir John Macdonald in a speech de- 
livered in Canadian House of Commons 
May 3, 1872. 

I have ambition; but it is the ambition 
of being the humble instrument, in the 
hands of Providence, to reconcile a divided 
people, once more to revive concord and 
harmony in a distracted land ? 

Henry Clay — Compromise Speech. 

We have met the enemy, and they are 
ours ? 
Com. Oliver Hazard Perry — Despatch. 

I only regret that I have but one life 
to lose for my country? 

Nathan Hale, patriot spy, on the scaf- 
fold. 

I request you to witness to the world 
that I die like a brave man ? 

Major Andre — On the scaffold. 

I know not what course others may take, 
but as for me, give me liberty or give me 
death? Patrick Henry, March, 1775. 

England expects every man to do his 
duty ? » 

Lord Nelson — Signal to his fleet at bat- 
tle of Trafalgar. 

Better pointed bullets than pointed 
speeches ? 

Bismarck — Political Speeches. 

We join ourselves to no party that does 
not carry the flag, and keep step to the 
music of the Union ? 

Bufus Choate — Letter, Whig Conven- 
tion. 

Our Country ! In her intercourse with 
foreign nations, may she ever be in the 
right ; but our country, right or wrong ? 
Admiral Stephen Decatur — Toast. 

"Blood is thicker than water? 
Com. TatnaU-^-Betaliating for Chinese 
insult. 



The principles upon which Democracy 
rests are as everlasting as the hills % 

William J. Bryan, in his "Cross of 
Gold" speech, delivered on the Chicago 
platform, 1896. 

Even while I speak, the moments are 
passing away — the irrevocable moments, 
pregnant with the destiny of a great peo- 
ple ? 

Thomas Macaulay — House of Com- 
mons, Eng. 

To a good man, nothing is evil, neither 
while living nor when dead ? 

Socrates — Address to the Judges after 
they had condemned him. 

It is greatness of soul alone that nevei 
grows old ? 

Pericles — Oration delivered at Athens 
on death of the Athenian soldiers, IfSl 
B. C. 

Our Country! However bounded or 
described, be the measurement more or less 
— still our Country, to be cherished in all 
our hearts, to be defended by all our 
hands? B. C. Winthrop — Toast. 

Eor more than forty years I have so 
ruled my life that when death came I 
might face it without fear ? 

General Havelock — Dying ivords. 

Complete victory along the entire line ? 
Gen. Guiseppe Garibaldi — Famous 
telegram from Naples, Oct. 1st, 1860. 

Here, once the embattled farmers stood, 
and fired the shot heard round the world ? 

Emerson. 

The true greatness of a Nation cannot 
be in triumphs of the intellect alone? 
Charles Sumner. 

God reigns, and the Government at 
Washington still lives ? 

J. A. Garfield — Assassination of Lin- 
coln. 

This Nation, under God, shall have a 
new birth of freedom, and that govern- 
ment of the people, for the people, by the 
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Abraham Lincoln — Memorial speech at 
Gettysburg. 

I'll fight it out on this plan if it takes 
all summer ? 

U. S. Grant — Before Richmond. 

~Ro terms other than unconditional and 
immediate surrender can be accepted. I 
propose to move immediately upon your 
works ? 

Gen. Grant — Before Fort Donelson. 

Let no guilty man escape ? 
U. S. Grant — Order regarding Whisky 
Ring Trial. 

If any one attempts to haul down the 
American nag, shoot him on the spot ? 

Gen. John A. Dix — Telegram from 
'Washington, January, 1861. 

It is your name, your glory, your sign 
among the people ? Guiseppe Mazzini. 

What would you do if you were in our 
place ? 

Gen. R. E. Lee — Reply to remark thai 
the South had best give up the struggle. 

To your tried valor and patriotism the 
country looks with confidence for deliver- 
ance and safety? 

Gen. Lee — Address to his troops. 

You must hold your ground, sir? 

Gen. Stonewall Jackson — His last order 
on the field of battle to a brigadier who 
said his line was so badly broken he would 
be obliged to fall back. 

There is a higher law than the Consti- 
tution ? W. H. Seward, statesman. 

Be Minister, and we will, between us 
remake the map of Europe ? 

Prince Bismarck — To Thiers, when the 
map was re-made in 1871, at close of the 
Franco-Prussian war. 

We will not cede either an inch of our 
territory or a stone of our fortresses ? 
Senator Jules Favre — Sept. 6, 1870. 

The ideal is the word of God ? 

Guiseppe Mazzini. 



General, did I lead them straight? 

Capt. Rawsons dying words, Com- 
mander of Highland Brigade, to Sir dor- 
net Wolseley after the victory of Tel-el- 
Kebir, Egypt, 1883. 

Go West, young man, and grow up with 
the country? 

Horace Greeley — Advice. 

There is always room at the top ? 

Daniel Webster. 

With malice towards none, with charity 
for all, with firmness in the right, as God 
gives us to see the right, let us finish the 
work we are in, to bind up the nation's 
wounds, to care for him who shall have 
borne the battle, and for his widow and 
orphans, to do all which may actuate and 
cherish a just and a lasting peace among 
ourselves and with all nations ? 

Lincoln — Second inaugural speech. 

I demand it in the name of the Great 
Jehovah and the Continental Congress I 
Ethan Allen — Fort Ticonderoga. 

As for my enemies, had I as many 
hearts as I have fingers, with all those 
hearts would I forgive my enemies ? 

Davis Lewis — His speech on the scaf- 
fold. 

He serves his party best who serves the 
country best ? 

Rutherford B. Hayes, President. 

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty 
knows nothing but victories ? 

Wendell Phillips. 

What hath God wrought ? 

Balaam, the Prophet. Num. xxiii. 23 
— The first words sent over the electric 
telegraph from Baltimore to Washington, 
18U- 

No man need fear failure, if Christ is 
his leader ? 

Rev. Geo. Whitfield's reply when asked 
to suggest a motto for the State of New 
Hampshire. 

Don't let us fight without a flag ? 
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at the battle of Ft. Moultrie, 1776, re- 
covered the flag shot from its staff, and 
waved in defiance. 



DELIGHTFUL BIBLE EXERCISE. 

(The questions given below can be used 
to advantage by a Sunday school teacher 
to a class or they can be used at socials 
with much profit and pleasure. ) 

Who is called "The Beloved Disciple ?" 

John. 

What woman said to her sister: "The 
Master is come and calleth for thee?" 

Martha. 

What queen entered a king's presence 
contrary to law in order to save her peo- 
ple ? Esther. 

Who put this question to Jesus : "What 
is truth ?" Pilate. 

What mother loaned her son to God ? 

Hannah. 

Who was the first person punished on 
the earth ? Eve. 

Who had a vision of a golden stairway 
reaching from heaven to earth — one on 
which angels ascended and descended? 

Jacob. 

What was the name of the place where 
Jesus was born ? Bethlehem. 

What sick General heard of the Prophet 
Elisha through a captive girl ? Naaman. 

What writer of the Gospel gives the 
genealogy of Jesus from Abraham to Jo- 
seph ? Matthew. 

What one of the prophets was buried in 
his own house ? Samuel. 

Who first entered the empty tomb of 
Christ ? Peter. 

What one of the seven deacons had four 
daughters who prophesied ? 

Philip, Acts 20:9. 

Upon whose head did the dove descend 
after his baptism? Jesus. 



To whom was the rainbow first given 
as a sign and how was it interpreted? 

Noah; and God said that the world 
would not again be destroyed by water. 

Who was it that said "Let him that is 
without sin cast the first stone?" 

Jesus. 

Who saw a burning bush and heard a 
voice which called him to dutv ? 

Moses. 

Who was it that said : "Entreat me not 
to leave thee, or to return from following 
thee, for whither thou goest I will go and 
where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy peo- 
ple shall be my people and thy God my 
God ? Ruth unto Naomi. 

Who was called from the sheepfold to 
be king of a nation ? David. 

What queen brought gifts and among 
them a peacock to Solomon ? 

Queen of Sheba. 

What man did Satan deprive of health, 
wealth and family within two days ? 

Job. 

Who was it that was denied the privi- 
lege of passing into Canaan because of one 
sin he committed ? Moses. 

Who was it that said, "Ye intended it 
unto me for evil, but God intended it unto 
me for good?" Joseph. 

A prophet's servant received this sen- 
tence: "The leprosy of JSTaaman shall 
cleave unto thee." Give his name? 

Gehazi. 

What king built the first temple ? 

Solomon. 

What prophet gave Solomon his name, 
became his teacher and secured the throne 
for him ? Nathan. 

Who led the Israelites into Canaan ? 

Joshua. 

What giant leader of Israel routed his 
enemies with his cunning as well as by 
force ? Samson. 



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What two men were honored with gold 
chains as marks of esteem and favored 
with princely positions ? 

Joseph — for interpreting a dream and 
Daniel for reading the handwriting on the 
wall. 

What prophet caused the rain to cease 
and by prayer brought it again to the 
earth ? Elijah. 

What one of the disciples refused to be- 
lieve in the resurrection of Jesus unless 
he could put his finger into the nail prints 
and thrust his hand into his side ? 

Thomas. 

What was the name of the general who 
commanded Saul's army? Abner. 

Who named the first woman? 

Adam. 

What Hebrew married a Gentile whose 
son became the ancestor of Jesus? 

Boaz. 

Who plotted to destroy a nation and 
was hanged for it? Haman. 

Of what king was it said: "They are 
dead who sought the young child's life ?" 
Herod the Great. 

Who was it when a little girl that 
watched by the River W\\q her baby broth- 
er until rescued by the princess ? — and 
who when a woman grown passed dry shod 
through the Red Sea and led the nation 
in a song of deliverance? Miriam. 

Who was it that taught by example the 
three greatest things in life and what are 
they ? 

Jesus, Life, Death and Resurrection. 

To what young minister did Paul write 
from prison asking him to bring his cloak, 
his books and parchments ? Timothy. 

What Jew offered his tomb for the burial 
of Christ? Joseph of Aremathea. 

What was the name of the disciple who 
first called Paul Brother ? Ananias. 

What person said to Jesus: "I adjure 
thee by the living God that thou tell me 



whether thou art the Christ the Son of the 
living God? Caicephas. 

What was the name of the woman out 
of whom Jesus cast the seven devils ? 

Mary Magdalene. 

Who forgot household cares to sit at 
Jesus' feet? Mary, the sister of Martha. 

What Jewish leader sacrificed his 
daughter on account of his vow? 

Jeptha. 

At whose grave was the first monument 
erected? Rachel's, Gen. 35:20. 

Who said of his father: "His life is 
bound up in the lad's life." 

Judah. 

What man said: "My punishment is 
greater than I can bear ?" Cain. 

To whom did Jesus say : "Art thou a 
teacher in Israel and knowest not these 
things ?" Nicodemus. 



WHAT FAMOUS PERSONS DO THE FOL- 
LOWING OBJECTS SUGGEST? 

FROM THE YOUTH'S COMPANION. 
(An excellent paper for Boys and Girls.) 

A hatchet? George Washington. 

A rail fence ? Abraham Lincoln. 

A bridge ? Horatius. 

A kite ? Ben Franklin. 

A horse (2) ? 

Richard III. and Alexander the Great. 

A griddle-cake ? King Alfred. 

A spider's w T eb (2) ? 

Robert Bruce and Mohammed. 

A fiddle ? Nero. 

A muddy cloak? 

Sir Walter Raleigh. 
A heel ? Achilles. 

A silver cup ? Benjamin. 

An ax (2) ? 

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A wooden horse % Ulysses. 

A lonely island (2) ? 

Robinson Crusoe and Napoleon I. 

A hut in the woods ? 

Henry D. Thoreau. 

An "Old Manse?" Hawthorne. 

Icebergs and floes ? Fridjof Nansen. 

A burning bush ? Moses. 

A ruff ? Queen Elizabeth. 

A mantle with many rents ? 

Julius Caesar. 

A pearl ? Cleopatra. 

A gray goose shaft ? Robin Hood. 

A glass slipper ? Cinderella. 

A daisy ? Robert Burns. 

A plow ? Cincinnatus. 

A blot of ink on the wall ? 

Martin Luther. 

An apple (4) ? 

2?ve — Paris — Wm. Tell — Sir Isaac 

Newton. 



A silver lamp ? 



Aladdin. 



A lion's skin ? Hercules. 

A smooth, round stone ? David. 

Long hair (2) ? 

Samson and Absalom. 

Painted grapes ? Zenxis. 

A garter ? 

Countess of Salisburg and Edward III. 

A web of tapestry ? Penelope. 

Dragons' teeth ? Cadnius. 

A skein of silk ? 

Theseus and Ariadne. 

A dove? Noah. 

A pomegranate seed ? Proserpine. 

A key ? Bluebeard. 

A donkey? Balaam. 

A suit of black armor ? 

Richard Coeur de Leon. 

A handful of dates ? 

Saladin in the "Talisman." 

An uprooted tree ? 

Ivanhoe as del Desdechado. 

Boots and saddles ? General Custer. 



BOOK VII. 



FUN FOR ALL. 



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(Those who have passed the age of 
youth will wonder what new thing this 
part can contain that is separate and dis- 
tinct from the preceding pages, but a 
glance will suffice to show that the volume 
would not be complete without it.) 



CANDY PULLS. 



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I ANDY PULLS" are among the 
\y most enjoyable events of chil- 
dren's lives. I shall never forget my first 
party. It was made especially nonfor- 
getable by the fact that it had been an- 
nounced that it was to be a "Candy 
Pull" and that everyone was to wear an 
apron. Imagine, if you can, some quarter 
of a hundred youngsters repairing to the 
kitchen all bent on doing their share to 
make the occasion what is implied by the 
words, "Fall in and help yourself." Re- 
cipes were gotten out, kettles put on the 
stove, molasses measured and all other in- 
gredients gotten ready. Then came the 
watching to see that it did not burn, then 
the testing to see that it was hard enough, 
and finally the putting to cool and then 
the pulling. If you have never tried the 
experiment up to this time, try it now or 
at least let the young folks try it. The 
success depends upon the right recipe. 
This one never fails. For three persons 
use 1 cup of New Orleans molasses, 1 
cup brown sugar, 1 tablespoonful of melted 
butter, 1 tablespoonful vinegar. Mix all 
together and boil until it hardens when 
dropped into cold water, then add \ tea- 
spoonful soda. 



Be sure that the candy has cooked until 
it crystallizes when dropped in cold water. 
Set to cool in buttered tins. When nearly 
cold, butter the hands (taking care, of 
course, that they are clean) and then di- 
vide it equally, giving each party his por- 
tion. Use no flour — this spoils it. Thor- 
oughly pulling the candy will make it 
white and really delightful to eat. It can 
then be fashioned in baskets, lovers' knots, 
birds' nests, etc., etc. 



MAKING FUDGES. 

OW many of my readers have tried 
the making of fudges as an inno- 
vation to the romping and "do-nothing" 
method in which many of our young 
folks spend their time when companions 
come to while away an hour. Try the fol- 
lowing rule — we call it a "never-fail" re- 
cipe: 

Two-thirds cup of cream or rich milk, 
2 cups sugar, butter size of small egg. 
Boil 10 minutes. Flavor with va- 
nilla and 1 tablespoonful chocolate; stir 
until cool and pour in buttered pans. 
Mark off into squares. It is improved by 
additions of -| cup of hickory nut meats. 
The above is sufficient for four persons. 



A MAPLE SUGAR-OFF. 

OU who have never been in Ver- 
mont, Michigan, Canada, or any of 
the delightful places where maple sugar 
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a "Sugar-Off," unless, like myself, you 
have been able to transfer the idea to your 
own kitchen stove, in which case you par- 
take of one of the farmer's finest treats. 
A "Sugar-Off" can be enjoyed by a 
score or more of people with little or no 
more extra trouble than for one. Take 
(for a party of 20) four quarts of maple 
syrup. Let boil down until it crystals 
when dropped in cold water. Have ready 
some small square cakes of ice or basins 
of clear snow firmly packed, and over this 
dip a few spoonfuls of the warm, cooked 
syrup. Pass to guests with a fork, and if 
they don't pronounce it the best treat of 
their life, I shall be much mistaken. 



POP CORN BALLS— AS AN ENTERTAIN- 
MENT. 

O make Pop Corn Balls is fine sport 
for a party of young people or for 
individual boys and girls on a rainy day. 
Select good popping corn, shell and pop. 
The most tasty way to pop it is this : put a 
generous tablespoonful of lard in a kettle 
(konut, if preferred, instead of lard), let 
it get smoking hot, and put in a teacupful 
of shelled corn — no salt. When it begins 
to pop put on cover and shake the kettle 
continuously by means of the handle of 
the kettle, until all is popped. Empty in 
pan. Repeat until enough is popped. Now 
salt to taste and let stand until the mo- 
lasses is cooked, which, by the way, should 
be ready about the same time as the corn, 
if put over when one begins popping the 
corn. 

To make good balls, a pan of corn after 
it is popped will require a generous pint 
of New Orleans molasses. Put this on 
the stove and let cook until it crystallizes 
when dropped into cold water; stir into 
the cooked molasses a pinch of soda dis- 
solved in hot water and pour all over the 
corn, stirring the corn over and over until 
all is covered with the taffy. The corn 
can be formed into balls or served mount- 
ed loosely in plates. Peanuts shelled and 
added are nice variations. 




SHADOW GAMES. 

(See Illustration.) 

UCH amusement can be gotten out 
of hand shadows. 

These are made by putting the hands 
in various positions and throwing the 
shadows on the wall. The artist mak- 
ing the shadows must stand between the 
lamp and the wall. By a little practice, 
he can become quite expert in making 
them. 

Paper shadows on the wall are made 
by sketching a figure and cutting out all 
the light portions of the figure. By hold- 
ing them toward the wall with the light 
behind, these cuttings-out present excellent 
pictures of light and shade. 

For displaying large shadow pictures, 
suspend a sheet at one end of a room. 
The company should be upon one side and 
in the dark. On the other side there 
should be one strong light. It will be even 
improved if this light has a reflector. The 
light should be fixed in some position at 
a height about opposite the performers' 
heads. The proper distance from the 
sheet will be found upon trial. The per- 
formers should stand in close proximity 
to the sheet in order to cast a clear 
shadow. Each one should remember to 
hold himself in such a position as to make 
the best shadow. A little ingenuity in 
the arrangement of the substances will 
make very grotesque or very pretty 
shadows. With a newspaper and a few 
pins one can make any kind of head-dress. 
Strips of paper drawn around a spool will 
make curls, and a paper feather may be 
clipped in a few minutes that will surpass 
the most costly ostrich feather. 

So, in costuming, inexpensive things 
can be made to look comical or elegant at 
pleasure. If one wishes to portray crowns, i 
armour and various emblems, stiff brown 
paper or thin paste-board will answer | 
every purpose. It is easy to make strange- 
ly-shaped foreheads, comical noses, and 
wonderful chins out of paper, and these 
may be held in place by thread passed 



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HAND SHADOWS. 



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around the head. Arranging the hair or 
bending a finger over the nose to make it 
look aquiline, and sundry other tricks, 
suffice to please a company who are in a 
mood to be entertained. 

A large bat may be made by enveloping 
the player in a sheet, which, by extending 
his arms, he will possess huge wings. He 
must then pass sideways, with his face 
turned toward the sheet. 

To make hand shadows spread a sheet 
over the head and let fall around the fig- 
ure so as to disguise the form. It should 
be pulled sufficiently forward to hide the 
profile. The player should raise his hand 
close to it, and make with his fingers dif- 
ferent objects, such as a duck's head, rab- 
bit, or any of the hand shadows that ap- 
pear in the illustrations. 

For an evening at home suspend the 
sheet at one end of the room and have the 
shadow-man sit on the floor in front of it. 
Have but one light in the room and place 
it six or seven feet behind the shadow- 
man. Two or more persons may drape 
themselves and perform tricks. The gazer 
must guess, as the figures pass between 
his back and the lamp, whose shadow he 
beholds. A glance behind entails a for- 
feit. When the person is named, he or she 
guessed becomes the shadow-man. 

Other forms of hand-shadows besides 
those suggested will afford many a half- 
hour's amusement. There are those of the 
bear, goat, cow and the horse, as well as 
a host of others. The jaws moving. If 
one is able to imitate the sounds of any 
of the beasts whose hand-shadows are 
formed, the entertainment becomes even 
more complete. 



THE DANCING "NIGGER." 

HE accompanying figures should be 
^p) cut out in cardboard, but larger 
than represented. Of course, two will be 
required, except the head portion, the 
shaded parts being painted black, and the 
clothing may be striped with some bright 
color. Pinholes being made where the 



black dots are placed, the limbs should be 
attached by passing thin twine through 
and knotting it on both sides, taking care 




to allow freedom of movement. The stick 
of a camel-hair pencil, or something simi- 





lar, being thrust tightly through the holes 
in the hands, which should be pushed a 



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little apart, the figure can easily be made 
to dance to any tune, turn head over heels 
and execute sundry movements — lively, if 
not graceful. 

It may be remarked that though the 
contour of the figure is certainly not cop- 



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ied from any of the masterpieces of 
sculpture in the International Exhibition, 
it is nevertheless better adapted for sum- 
mersaults and other sprightly perform- 
ances. 




FUN WITH A PIECE OF LIGHTED 
CANDLE. 

HEN it is your turn to provide 
your quota of fun at an evening 
party, ask for a piece of candle, and, after 
you have obtained it, light it and request 
the person nearest to you to place it on 
the top of his head and then to blow it out. 
Very probably he will claim that it can- 

; not be done, but if you assure him that 
you can do it he will certainly place the 

1 candle on his head and blow upward at it 
with all his might, much to the amuse- 
ment of his companions. He will be un- 
able, however, to extinguish the candle, 
and so will all the others who try to do 
the trick. Yet it can be put out, and 
quite easily, provided it is placed in a 
proper position on the head. It must be 
placed as far forward on the head as pos- 
sible, and the head must be tilted back 

| while it is being placed there. Even a 
slight breath will then suffice to blow it 
out. 



SILHOUETTES. 



VEX in these enlightened days, 

when the art of photography has 

advanced so very near to perfection, there 

'are still some old-fashioned people who 

cling with fondness to these silhouettes; 

and I, for one, entertain a most profound 

I respect for the ingenious Frenchman, their 
inventor, whose name they bear. 

One great thing in their favor is, that 
the least clever among us may, with a 
little patience and a steady hand, find in 
them a pleasing recreation, and soon be- 
come adroit in their execution. 

But there may be some of my readers 
I who scarcely know what a silhouette is, 
!and such unenlightened persons I will en- 



deavor briefly to instruct in the almost 
forgotten art. 

A few sheets of drawing paper, a pencil 
and a lamp are all the essentials needed 
to commence operation. 

The operator first fixes a sheet of paper 
to the wall, by inserting a pin at each 
corner. Then the person whose likeness, 
or "silhouette," is to be taken, is seated 
in a chair, close to the wall, in such a 
position as to throw a distinct shadow of 
his profile (as near life-size as possible) 
on the center of the paper. To secure 
steadiness a wine glass, or some such sup- 
port, is placed between his head and the 
wall — for the slightest movement often 
causes failure. Having arranged these 
matters satisfactorily, the operator pro- 
ceeds to sketch, with a pencil, the head 
and profile of the "sitter;" and this re- 
quires a steady hand and some dispatch, 
as it is no easy matter to sit in one position 
for a great length of time perfectly mo- 
tionless. When the sketch is concluded, 
little skill will be needed to bring the task 
to an end. The operator has only, with 
a sharp pen-knife, to cut out the head in 
the line of the pencil-mark. The center 
part is then thrown aside, and the other 
paper laid on a piece of black cloth, which 
throws out the features boldly, and, if suf- 
ficient care has been taken, a striking like- 
ness will be the reward. 

A large collection of these silhouettes 
is always a source of much fun, and many 
a hearty laugh has been caused by dis- 
playing them. When the features are un- 
usually striking and original, the silhou- 
ettes generally turn out more of a cari- 
cature than a likeness. A snub-nose, for 
instance, has always a ludicrous appear- 
ance; so has a fierce Roman, especially 
if accompanied by an imposing moustache 
and a beard. Ladies' profiles, as a rule, 
have not so great a variety as gentlemen's, 
chiefly on account of the capillary adorn- 
ments of the latter; but then, of course, 
they have their countercharms, and polite- 
ness prompts me to say they are by far 
the most interesting. 



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PRIZE GAME. 



(Note. — The prizes need not cost over a 
cent unless one desires to spend more. ) 

HEKE are any number of these 
games that help young people to 
have a good time in an innocent way. 
For instance, give each one a pencil and a 
piece of paper; ask them to draw a pea- 
cock with one line in five minutes' time. 
The one that succeeds best should be 
awarded a prize; the second best should 
have honorable mention. 




Not one person out of a hundred will be 
able to draw these animals with one line, 
without previous instruction. This is 
amusing for young people and also their 
elders. 



BALANCING A PENCIL. 



HE figure shows without further ex- 
planation how the trick is done. 
Stick the point of a penknife in the lead 




pencil near its point and open the knife 
more or less until the balance has been 
reached. 



CLEVER TRICKS. 

THE BROKEN CORD. 

SHOW the audience two pieces of cord 
and three rings. Then put the 
rings over the two pieces of cord, as shown 
in figure A, and give the two ends of the 
cord to somebody to hold. 

Then cover the rings with your hands 
for a moment and "presto I" the rings are 
free, while the cords are intact. 




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FOOT BALL— AS PLAYED IN ENGLAND. 

The above game was recently played before 75,000 people for the Associa- 
tion Foot Ball Cup of South Hampton and Sheffield. 



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This surprising experiment is done in 
the following way: Before your exhibi- 
tion slice a thin fiber from one piece of 




cord and tie, as shown in figure B, the two 
pieces of cord covering the place where 
the cords are tied with your hands until 
the rings are put over them, hiding the 
place of connection. Then you give the 
cords with the rings to somebody to hold 
carefully, as shown in figure C, and re- 
move the rings with one quick pull. To 
show that the cords are intact, slip your 
thumb between the two ends, as shown in 
figure D. 



THE MATCH GTTN. 

AKE a glass tube of one-half-inch di- 
ameter and about five inches long, 
and close it at one end with sealing wax. 
Wheels and gun carriage are made of 
cigar-box wood. To fasten the barrel, glue 
a hollow piece of cork on the gun carriage, 
as figure shows. The wooden parts of the 
gun are connected by tacks and glue. As 
axle for the wheels use a strong knitting 
needle or a piece of wire. To prevent the 



wheels from coming off the axles, stick a 
large glass bead on each of the axle ends. 

Load the gun with a parlor match, in- 
serting it head first, and closing the open- 
ing of the barrel with a piece of cork or 
bread kneaded into a small ball, to make 
it airtight. Do not insert too tightly, or it 
will prevent the match from flying out. 

The gun is fired with a second match, as 
shown in figure. The match will explode 




with the report of a miniature cannon and 
fly from three to five yards, enveloped in a 
blue cloud of smoke. 



THE ANTICS OF THE CAMPHOR 
SCORPION. 

AKE a glass, fill it with water, and 
place pieces of camphor of un- 
even size on its surface, forming the fig- 
ure of an animal — for instance, that of a 
scorpion. After a short while the scorpion 
will start to move in the water, working- 
its legs as if it wanted to swim, while its 
tail will move like that of a live scorpion. 
This experiment teaches that camphor has 
a tendency to move on the surface of the 
water, caused by the evaporation of the 



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camphor fumes ; this will be accomplished 
without dissolving the camphor; single 
pieces will not separate, but follow the 




laws of cohesion. This experiment is sur- 
prising in its effect. Try it and see. 



TO MAKE A ROIL OF PAPER GO UP 
HILL. 

ASTEN a piece of lead in the inside 
|&J© of a roll of paper, as shown in 
figure. Mark the location of the lead on 
the outside of the roll. Close both ends of 
the roll with paper, and place it on the 




inclined board, as shown in figure. It will 
then roll up-hill until the piece of lead 
the bottom, where it will remain 



is on 

without rolling down. 



TO TEST THE LUNGS. 

OU can test the power of your lungs 
in the following simple way: 
Take a long, narrow, and strong paper 
bag and place it on the edge of the table 
with the opening toward you. Put a 
weight, which can be gradually increased, 
on opposite end of the bag, in the shape of 
books, etc., and you will be surprised to 



learn how great a weight you can move in 
this way. 




It is easy to knock over two such heavy 
volumes as shown in the figure. 



AMUSING TRICK WITH FIRE. 

SOAK a piece of linen thread in a 
strong solution of salt (two table- 
spoonfuls of water to one tablespoonful of 
salt). Take it out and let it dry, repeat- 
ing this three or four times before you are 
ready for the performance of this marvel- 
ous trick. 

Show the piece of thread to the audi- 
ence, and, as the thread will look like an 
ordinary piece of linen thread nobody will 
know that it has been prepared. Suspend 




a light ring from the thread ; set fire to 
the thread and burn it up. The ring will 
stay suspended although the thread is 
burnt. This experiment must be executed 



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with great care, as a fine fiber of salt sus- 
pends the ring, instead of the burnt 
thread, and the least bit of draft or shak- 
ing will spoil the experiment. This trick 
can also be done in the following manner : 
Take a small piece of muslin and tie a 
piece of linen thread to each of the four 
corners, as the figure shows, forming a 
sort of hammock. This hammock, to- 
gether with the thread, place in a strong 
solution of salt, as described before. Take 
it out and dry it, and repeat this treat- 
ment three or four times before the per- 
formance. Hang it up as shown in figure, 
and put an empty eggshell in the ham- 
mock. Set fire to it and you will see that 
although the threads and muslin are burnt 
up the egg will stay suspended in the air 



HOW TO GUESS HIDDEN SPOTS ON 
THREE DICE. 

URN around, and, with your back 
to the table, ask somebody to throw 
the dice. Then tell the person who threw 
them to double the number of spots on the 
dice on the left, and keep the number to 
himself. Tell him to add five, then multi- 
ply by five. To this figure have him add 




the number of spots on the dice in the 
middle, and multiply the product by ten. 
Then ask him to add the number of spots 
on the third dice, and give you the aggre- 
gate sum. From the amount subtract, 
mentally, 250, and the remainder will 
show in the three figures the number of 
spots on each of the three dice. For in- 



stance, take the three dice shown here. 
Their numbers are 5, 3, 2. Double the 
one on the left, 5X2=10. Add 5=15. 
Multiply by 5=75. Add the number of 
spots on the dice in the middle, 3=78. 
Multiply by 10=780. Add number of 
spots on third dice, 2=782. Subtract 
250, and 532 remains, which are the num- 
bers on the dice. 



THE FAMILY GIANT. 

VEKY fair giant, for domestic pur- 
poses, may be produced by the 
simple expedient of seating a young lad 
astride on the shoulders of one of the older 




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The Family Giant. 



members of the company, and draping the 
combined figure with a long cloak or 
"Kainy day' 7 cape. The "head" portion 
may, of course, be "made up" as much as 
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the more effective heing the giant. A fero- 
cious-looking moustache and whiskers will 
greatly add to his appearance. If some 
ready-witted and genial member of the 
party will undertake to act as showman, 
and exhibit the giant, holding a lively con- 
versation with him, and calling attention 
to his gigantic idiosyncrasies, a great deal 
of fun may be produced. The joke should 
not, however, be very long continued, as 
the feelings of the "legs" have to be con- 
sidered. If too long deprived of air and 
light, they are apt to wax rebellious, and 
either carry the giant in directions he 
would fain avoid, or even occasionally to 
strike altogether, and bring the giant's 
days to a sudden and undignified termina- 
tion. 



THE NONDESCRIPT, OR ANIMATED 
TELESCOPE. 

HIS is a much more finished decep- 
tion, and is not unfrequently seen 
exhibited at theaters and circuses. The 
figure in constructed as follows: You 
procure a stout broomstick, four feet long, 
and on one end thereof fasten firmly a 
grotesque pasteboard head, with appro- 
priate headdress. Next construct an ex- 
tinguisher-shaped robe of some dark ma- 
terial (a coarse black muslin or canvas is 
the best, as allowing a reasonable amount 
of light and ventilation to the performer). 
It should be gathered in with a frill round 
the neck of the figure, and should be of 
such a length that when the performer 
stands beneath, with the stick extended at 
full length above his neck, it shall all but 
reach the ground. (See Fig. 1.) 

The robe should taper gradually out- 
wards, from a diameter of about eight 
inches at the top to about two feet six 
at the bottom. A cane hoop should be 
fastened horizontally within it at about 
the height of the performer's knees, and 
another at about the level of his chin. 
These keep the garment distended, and 
give the operator much greater freedom of 



movement than he would otherwise enjoy. 
The lower hoop should be attached by four 
pieces of tape to a belt round the perform- 




The Nondescript, Fig. 1. 



er's waist, this arrangement keeping it at 
a uniform height from the floor, and pre- 




The Nondescript, Fig. 2. 

venting the skirt getting under the per- 
former's feet in walking. 



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With a little practice the figure thus 
composed may be made to go through a 
variety of the most eccentric maneuvers. 
For instance, by gradually lowering the 
stick, and at the same time contracting the 
body into a crouching position, it may be 
made to sink to the dimensions of a dwarf, 
as in Fig. 2. 

By bending the body, and at the same 
time lowering the stick into a horizontal 
position, the figure will be made to salute, 
as in Fig. 3. While in this position the 




The Nondescript, Fig. 3. 

head may be made to describe a circle of 
three or four feet in diameter with inex- 
pressibly comical effect. The stick may 
then be sloped backward, in manner 
shown in Fig. 4. 




The Nondescript, Pig. 4. 



By way of finale, the figure may be 
made, as in Fig. 5, to pass its head be- 



tween its legs, and in that position make 
its exit. 

Some little practice is required to work 
the "Nondescript" effectively. All sud- 
den movements or abrupt angles should be 
as far as possible avoided, the aim of the 




The Nondescript, Fig. 5. 

performer being to make his evolutions as 
serpentine as possible. It is a decided ad- 
dition to have two figures, one with a male 
and one with a female head, when a 
grotesque pas de deux may be executed 
with capital effect. 



"THE WHAT-DO-YOU-THINK?" 

UR next three or four columns will 
be devoted to the description of the 
after-dinner menagerie. We will begin 
with the "What-do-you-Think ?" 
portrait is depicted below. 



whose 




'The What-do-you-Think?" Fig. 1. 

The exhibitor begins, in proper show- 
man style, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I have 
the pleasure of exhibiting to your notice 



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the celebrated 'What-do-you-Think V or 
Giant Uncle-Eater. You have all prob- 
ably heard of the Ant-Eater. This is, as 
you will readily perceive, a member of the 
same family, but more so! He measures 
seven feet from the tip of his snout to the 
end of his tail, eight feet back again, five 
feet around the small of his waist, and 
has four feet of his own, making twenty- 
four in all. In his natural state he lives 
chiefly on blue-bottle flies and mixed 
pickles, but in captivity it is found that 
so rich a diet has a tendency to make him 
stout, and he is now fed exclusively on 
old champagne corks and back numbers 




"The What-do-you-Think?" Fig. 2. 

of the Family Herald. His voice, which 
you may perhaps have an opportunity of 
hearing (here the 'What-do-you-Think V 
howls dismally) is in the key of B flat, 
and is greatly admired. People come here 
before breakfast to hear it, and when they 
have heard it, they assure us that they 
never heard anything like it before. Some 
have even gone so far as to say that they 
never wish to hear anything like it again," 
etc. 

(The "What-do-you-Think" is manufac- 
tured as follows: The performer, who 
should have black kid gloves on, places on 
his head a conical paper cap, worked up 
with the aid of the nursery paint-box into 
a rough semblance of an animal's head. 
This being securely fastened on, he goes 
down on his hands and knees (See Eig. 
2), and a shaggy railway rug (of fur if 
procurable) is thrown over him, and 
secured round his neck, when the animal 
is complete.) 



THE BABY ELEPHANT. 

vwi OR the construction of this noble 
%jh animal two performers are neces- 
sary. They place themselves as shown in 
Eig. 1, and over them is thrown a large 




Baby Elephant, Fig. 



grey shawl, on which are sewn a couple 
of flaps of the same material to represent 
ears, and two pieces of appropriately 
marked paper for the eyes. A variety of 
articles may be used as a makeshift for 
tusks. If nothing else is procurable, they 
can be manufactured out of a couple of 
sheets of stiff white paper, rolled up 
tightly into a tapering form, while a 




The Baby Elephant 



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rolled-up shawl will form the trunk, 
general appearance of the animal 
then be as shown in Eig. 2. 

If it is desired to find an occupation 
for another of the company, the character 
of the native mahout or driver will afford 
much scope for invention. Of course, the 




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more grotesque the "properties" with 
which the mahout is rigged out, the 
greater his success. 



'THE CANIS REMARKABILIS, 
DEMON DOG." 



OR 



i®1 AN the leopard change his spots ? asks 
\g/ Artemus Ward, and proceeds to 
reply that at any rate you can change 
them for him with a paint-brush, as he 
himself had done in the case of an animal 
which w r as not naturally spotted in an at- 
tractive manner. The plan thus indicated 
is employed with great success in the case 
of the Canis Remarlcabilis, or Demon 
Dog. All that is needed is a shilling 
color-box and a bottle of bandoline, to 
transform the most thorough-bred of 
terriers or the veriest mongrel into an 
animal which it would bother Darwin 
himself to classify. If the dog be of the 
smooth, short-haired description, a few 
colored wafers may be applied with strik- 
ing effect. If, on the other hand, his coat 
be long and shaggy, a judicious use of the 
bandoline will "make each particular hair 
to stand on end, like quills upon the fret- 
ful porcupine." 

Whatever be the animal selected, the ef- 
fect of the joke will mainly depend upon 
the humor of the showman, who will do 




The Canis Remarkabilis, or Demon Dog. 

well not to trust to the inspiration of the 
moment, but to arrange appropriate "pat- 
/ ter" beforehand, 



THE GIRAFFE. 

HIS animal is constructed on the 
same principle as the Baby Ele- 
phant. A grotesque head, as nearly ap- 
proaching the required shape as possible, 




The Giraffe. 

is securely fastened to the end of a long 
stick, which is held by the foremost of the 
two performers. 

To this is attached the cloth which is 
designed to form the body of the animal, 
and which should be pinned round the 
bodies of the two performers. A rope 
tail may be added, the general effect being 
as shown in our illustration. 

A good deal of fun may be produced 
by the efforts of the animal to scratch his 
head with his hind leg, etc., etc. 



HALF-A-CENTTJRY OF CONUNDRUMS. 

(For answers see next page.) 

1. Why is a schoolmistress like the 
letter C ? 

2. I went into the woods and picked 
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it; and, not finding it, brought it home 
with me and cut it. 

3. Why is a boiled egg like a young 
colt ? 

4. Why were the governments of Al- 
giers and Malta as different from each 
other as light and darkness? 

5. When can grass be spelt with fewer 
than five letters ? 

6. At what season is it dangerous to 
walk in the meadows ? 

7. What is the most comical, and at 
the same time most pleasant, thing to see 
about dinner time ? 

8. Why are fixed stars like sealing 
wax and writing materials ? 

9. Why is a philanthropist like a 
horse ? 

10. Why are posts in a field like seeds ? 

11. When is a young lady over head 
and ears in debt? 

12. Why is a waiter like a racehorse? 

13. Which is the hardest of all keys to 
turn ? 

14. Why is the desert a good place for 
a hungry man ? 

15. When were sandwiches first made 
in Arabia ? 

16. Of what material was Eve's wed- 
ding dress ? 

17. Of what opera do crinolines re- 
mind us ? 

18. Why is marriage like the letter e? 
10. Why are laundresses like navi- 
gators ? 

20. How far is it to the bottom of the 
deepest sea? 

21. What sea would make the best bed- 
room ? 

22. Why is the House of Commons 
like a parson's horse? 

23. How many young ladies would 
reach from London to Brighton? 

21. What is the difference between a 
fagged beggar and Alexander, Czar of 
Russia ? 

AXSWERS TO IIALF-A-CENTURY OF CONUN- 
DRUMS. 

1. Because she makes lasses into 
classes. 



2. A thorn in the foot. 

3. Because it is little use till it is 
broken. 

4. Because one was governed by deys 
(days), and the other by knight (night). 

5. When it becomes hay. 

6. When the bulrush is out (bull rush- 
es out). 

7. A bun dance (abundance) on the 
table. 

8. Because they are stationary (sta- 
tionery). 

9. Because he stops at the sound of 
wo. 

10. Because they are put into the 
ground to prop-a-gate. 

11. When she has not paid for her 
bonnet. 

12. Because he runs for plates and 
cups. 

13. A stubborn don-key. 

14. Because of the sandwiches there 
(sand which is there). 

15. When Ham went there and bred 
(bread), and mustered (mustard) his fol- 
lowers. 

16. Bearskin (bare skin). 

17. Bows of cast steel. 

18. Because it is the end of love. 

19. Because they often cross the line, 
and go from pole to pole. 

20. Merely a stone's throw. 

21. Adriatic (a dry attic). 

22. Because it is often led by the min- 
ister. 

23. Fifty-two; because a miss is as 
good as a mile. 

24. The Czar issues his manifestoes, 
while the beggar manifests toes without 
his shoes (issues). 

BIRD CONUNDRUMS. 

What does a severe attack of quinsy 
prevent you from enjoying? 

Answer. — A swallow. 

An English architect well known to 
fame. 

A nswer. — Wren. 

A part of and a whole range of hills. 

Answer. — Part-ridge. 



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What does a coward do in the hour of 
danger. 

Answer. — Quail. 

Equality, and a state of putrefaction. 

Answer. — Par-rot. 

One who reigns and a toiler of the seas. 

Answer. — King-fisher. 

FRUIT CONUNDRUMS. 

One of the vowels and mother's cooking 
apparatus. 

Answer. — O-range. 

Giving way to grief and sorrow and 
that for which Eve fell. 

Answer. — Pine-apple. 

What is considered a grave offense in 
school-boy ethics. 

Answer. — Peach. 

The color of growing grass and a chal- 
lenge. 

Answer. — Green-gage. 

FLOWER CONUNDRUMS. 

What a clear conscience means to its 
owner. 

Answer. — Heart's-ease. 

Railroad vehicle, and a people living 
under one ruler. 

Answer. — Car-nation. 

What maple sugar is, and the name of 
more kings than one. 

A nswer. — Sweet-William. 

A noted English statesman and a neces- 
sary article of dress. 

Answer. — Fox-glove. 



ENIGMAS AND CHARADES. 



is 



HE earliest enigma on record 
probably that propounded by Samp- 
son, and which was so prematurely di- 
vulged by his wife. The next enigma of 
ancient date that occurs to us is the fa- 
mous one which we are told was put forth 
by the sphinx, and solved by CEdipns. It 
was in these terms, "What animal is that 
which goes on four legs in the morning, 
on two at noon, and on three in the even- 
ing?" The answer was, "Man, who in 
infancy crawls on all fours, in his prime 
walks erectly, and in old age props him- 



self with a staff." What number of rid- 
dles, however, the ancients composed, but 
few have been handed down to us, so we 
must pass at once to those of more recent 
times. The word enigma is a compre- 
hensive term that may be applied to any 
riddle, of whatever nature it may be. A 
charade is an enigma, composed on a word 
that may be syllabically divided into other 
words, which are severally described as 
first, second, and third, or fourth, as the 
case may be ; while all together are called 
the whole. 

A BOX OF PENS. 

(For answers see next page.) 

1. What pen is only to be met w T ith in 
Cornwall ? 

2. What pen is a lady's name ? 

3. What pen has five sides? 

4. What pen saw many terrible bat- 
tles ? 

5. What pen have we all studied at 
school ? 

6. What pen enables us to draw? 

7. What pen includes our household 
gods? 

8. What pen is provided with wings ? 

9. What pen names a great Jewish 
feast ? 

10. What pen signifies poverty ? 

11. What pen is made of copper? 

12. What pen is chiefly patronized by 
the Roman Catholics ? 

13. What pen appertains to a clock ? 

14. What pen flourishes chiefly at 
Chelsea and Greenwich ? 

15. What pen claims Moses for its au- 
thority ? 

16. What pen enables people to live 
comfortably ? 

17. What pen need never be regretted ? 

18. What pen do criminals pay for 
their misdeeds ? 

19. What pen is a mental faculty? 

20. What pen belongs exclusively to 
the United States. 

21. What pen pays for damages ? 

22. WTiat pen is never shut? 

23. What pen denotes a gentle melan- 
choly ? 



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24. What pen is never cheap ? 

25. What word represents the battle of 
Waterloo, and, with the addition of one 
letter, its results ? 

26. What tax, spelt with six letters, 
might be expressed in three ? 

27. What flower thrives under pres- 
sure ? 

28. What adverb describes the nature 
of a falsehood ? 

CONS. CONCERNING "THAT BLESSED BABE." 

29. Why is a babe like a great man ? 

30. When does a babe resemble a let- 
ter? 

31. When should you hesitate to re- 
ceive a babe from the arms of its mother ? 

32. When is a babe like a person whose 
"hard cash" amounts to five shillings 
only? 

33. What useful lesson might a babe 
teach a volunteer? 

34. What is the difference between an 
industrious person and a lazy one ? 

35. When cannot a minister of religion 
err? 

36. Why are fascinating girls like 
clouds ? 

37. What is "the sweetest thing in 
caps ?" 

38. What cap includes a number of 
heads ? 

39. What cap comprises a body? 

40. What cap has a monkish appear- 
ance? 

41. What cap is most adapted to gain 
favor ? 

42. What cap is "taking" yet not 
agreeable ? 

43. WTiat cap enables a person to ab- 
stain from food ? 

44. What cap ought every man to wear 
in business ? 

45. What cap is most conspicuous at 
the Crystal Palace? 

46. What cap is worn by prisoners ? 

47. What cap is made for the benefit 
of sportsmen ? 

48. Which cap is preeminently the 
ladies' cap? 

49. What did Adam and Eve live on? 



(Answers.) 

1. Fen — zance. 2. Fen — elope. 3. 
Fen — tagon. 4. Fen — insula. 5. Fen — 
manship. 6. Fen — cil. 7. Fen — ates. 
8. Fen — guin. 9. Fen — tecost. 10. 
Fen — ury. 11. Fen — ny. 12. Fen — 
ance. 13. Fen — dulum. 14. Fen — 
sioners. 15. Fen — tateuch. 16. Fen — 
sion. 17. Fen — itence. 18. Fen — alty. 
19. Fen — etration. 20. Fen — sylvania. 
21. Com — 'pen — sation. 22. O — pen. 
23. Pen — sive. 24. Ex — pen — sive. 25. 
Hosts,, which became ghosts. 26. Excise — 
xii. 27. Tulips (two lips). 28. Meanly 
(mean-lie). 29. When he is not-able. 
30. When a mail (male) carries it. 31. 
When it has been "cribbed," and is neces- 
sarily stolen property. 32. When it has a 
bare crown. 33. Not to be imbecile, in 
arms. 34. The first makes time, the sec- 
ond takes it. 35. When he is a curate 
(accurate). 36. Because they reign 
(rain) upon earth. 37. Cap — illaire. 
38. Cap — itation. 39. Cap — itulary. 
40. Cap — uchin. 41. Cap — tation. 42. 
Cap — tion. 43. Decap — itation. 44. 
Cap — ability. 45. Cap — aciousness. 46. 
Cap — tivity. 47. The handi — cap. 48. 
Cap — rice. 49. On terra firma. 



CHARADES. 



My first the mind associates with little 

"busy bees ;" 
My next, a naughty cannibal, is an active 

foe of ease; 
'Tis said that Barnum is my whole — few 

persons this can doubt; 
And surely you, with such a clue, won't 

fail to find me out. 

Answer. — Hum — bug. 

My first is an animal — one that is young ; 

My second is sweet after toil ; 
My whole is a deed that should never be 
done, 

Though it oft is on African soil. 

Answer. — Kid — nap. 



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Drawn from the earth a useless mass, 

I for a while remain ; 
And all degrees of heat I pass, 

Ere I my beauty gain. 

By artist then exactly skill'd, 

I'm with a shape endued ; 
And when completely finished fill'd 

With vital flesh and blood. 

Much prized to every sex and age 

A welcome guest I come, 
And do in divers feats engage, 

Of which I'll tell you some. 

By force the famous gordian tie 

The Macedon disjoined, 
But force and skill you'll vainly try 

To loose the knot I bind. 

I the lover's plaint to his sweetheart bear, 

With much ingenious art, 
What in two hours he'd scarce declare, 

I in two words impart ; 

Yet I of what I her apprize 

A tittle never knew ; 
And though I'm graced with numerous 
eyes 

Can ne'er an object view. 

But hold ! already I too far 

I fear myself unmask; 
Readers, I pray my name declare, 

'Tis sure an easy task. 

Answer. — A Gold Ring. 

Come solve my riddle, readers, 

I'm sure you'll find jt out ; 
Where'er my other parts may be, 

My first's here without doubt. 

If now you wish to know my second, 
I'll tell you — (mind no laughter) — 

That if you don't find it out now, 
I think you'll find it after. 

To find my whole then do your best, 

And bring it forth to light, 
And when you've solved it, you may tell 

It hereafter with all might. 

Answer. — Hereafter. 



WORD PUZZLE. 

(From Youth's Companion.) 

I am a large animal whose name is 
spelled with five letters; behead me and 
1 am healthy; behead me again and I am 
a beverage; behead again and add a letter 
and I am a meadow ; add another letter 
and I am a metal; rearrange the letters 
and I am a distribution; rearrange again 
and I am a valley; rearrange once more 
and prefix a letter and I am an opening 
through the woods ; curtail and I am de- 
lighted ; behead and I am a boy. 

Answer. — Whale, hale, ale, lea, lead, 
deal, dale, glade, glad, lad. 



RIDDLES, No. 2. 



I'm all around in earth and air and sky; 
Where'er you look or listen, there am I ; 
You cannot see me, yet you travel o'er me ; 
The fish you ate for breakfast always wore 

me; 
No human eye has seen me, yet I'm 

canned 
And sold in markets — do you understand ? 
Answer. — Sound. 

My mother cautions me against it daily, 
And yet she made it for me tother day ; 
It is the foe, she says, of all most deadly, 
And yet she decked it out with ribbons 

gay; 

She makes me take it with me everywhere, 
And yet she says, "My child, of it be- 
ware !" 
Answer. — Waste, waist. 



FORFEITS. 



S half the fun of games consists in 
redeeming forfeits, we give a list 
of some of the most harmless and amusing. 

In the schemes of advice upon the sub- 
ject, the penalties imposed are sometimes 
vulgar, or absurd, creating confusion 
where innocent pleasure is designed. The 
following are suggested to help our friends 
out of the difficulty. 

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forfeits the one who is to name the penal- 
ties attached to each should sit or kneel 
down blindfolded before another member 
of the company who takes up in turn each 
article contributed as a forfeit, and says: 

"Here's a pretty thing, and a very 
pretty thing, what shall the owner of this 
thing do?" 

"Is it fine or superfine?" asks the one 
blindfolded. 

If the property of a gentleman it is 
fine, if of a lady it is superfine. When it 
is determined whether lady or gentleman, 
they may be told to do so and so, as the 
case may be. 

The person awarding the forfeits may 
call out, "Hush-a-bye, baby!" "Hobson's 
choice !" "Dot and carry one !" etc. The 
cryer of the forfeits then explains what is 
to be done. In this way the redemption 
of the forfeits will go on freely, without 
stoppage or hesitation, and a capital even- 
ing's amusement be derived. 

THE KNIGHT OF THE RUEFUL COUNTE- 
NANCE. 

The player whose forfeit is cried is so 
called. He must take a lighted candle in 
his hand, and select some other player to 
be his squire, who takes hold of his arm, 
and they both go round to all the ladies in 
the company. It is the squire's office to 
kiss the hand of each lady, and after each 
kiss to wipe the knight's mouth with a 
handkerchief. The knight must carry the 
candle through the penance, and preserve 
a grave countenance. 

JOURNEY TO HOME. 

The person whose forfeit is called out 
must go round to all in the company, to 
tell them that he is going on a journey to 
Rome, and that he will feel great pleasure 
in taking anything for his Holiness the 
Pope. Everyone must give something to 
the traveler. (The more cumbersome or 
awkward to carry, the more fun it occa- 
sions.) When he has gathered all, he has 
to carry the things to one corner of the 
room, and deposit them, and thus end his 
penance. 



LAUGHING GAMUT. 



Sing the laughing gamut without pause 
or mistake, thus : — 



ha 



ha 


ha 


ha 


ha 


ha 


ha 


ha 


ha 


La 


ha 


. 


ha 




ha 


THE MEDLEY. 



ha 



Sing one line of the four different songs 
without pausing between them. It would 
be well to find four lines that afford 
humor, taken consecutively, such as — 

"All around my hat." 
"A rare old plant is the ivy green." 
"Sweet Kitty Clover, she bothers me so." 
"In the Bay of Biscay, O." 

hobson's choice. 

Burn a cork one end, and keep it clean 
the other. You are then to be blindfolded, 
and the cork to be held horizontally to you. 
You are then to be asked three times which 
end you will have ? If you say, "Right," 
then that end of the cork must be passed 
along your forehead. The cork must then 
be turned several times, and whichever 
end you say must next be passed down 
your nose ; and the third time across your 
cheeks or chin. You are then to be al- 
lowed to see the success of your choice. 

[This will afford capital fun, and 
should be played fairly, to give the per- 
son who owns the forfeit a chance of es- 
cape. The end of the cork should be thor- 
oughly well burnt. As a joke for Christ- 
mas time, this is perfectly allowable ; and 
the damp corner of a towel or handker- 
chief will set. all right. It should be 
allotted to a gentleman, and one who has 
a good broad and bare face.] 

HUSII-A-KYE, BABY. 

Yawn until von make several others in 
the room yawn. 




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[This can be done well by one person 
who can imitate yawning well, and it will 
afford indescribable mirth. It should be 
allotted to one of the male sex, with a large 
mouth, and a sombre or heavy appearance, 
if such an one can be found in the party.] 

THE BEGGAR. 

A penitence to be inflicted on a gentle- 
man only. The penitent takes a staff, and 
approaches a lady. He falls on his knees 
before her, and, thumping his staff on the 
ground, implores "Charity." The lady, 
touched by the poor man's distress, asks 
him, "Do you want bread ?" "Do you 
want water?" To all questions such as 
these the Beggar replies by thumping his 
staff on the ground impatiently. At 
length the lady says, "Do you want a 
kiss ?" At these words the Beggar jumps 
up and kisses the lady. 

THE PILGRIM. 

The Pilgrim is very like the Beggar. 
A gentleman conducts a lady round the 
circle, saying to each member of it, if a 
gentleman, "A kiss for my sister, and a 
morsel of bread for me." If a lady, "A 
morsel of bread for my sister, and a kiss 
for me." The bread is of no particular 
importance, but the kiss is indispensable. 

THE EGOTIST. 

Propose your own health in a compli- 
mentary speech, and sing the musical 
honors. 

DOT AND CARRY ONE. 

Hold one ankle in one hand, and walk 
round the room. 

[This is suited only to gentlemen.] 

THE IMITATION. 

If a gentleman, he must put on a lady's 
bonnet, and imitate the voice of the lady 
to whom it belongs ; if a lady, then a gen- 
tleman's hat, etc. Sometimes these imi- 
tations are very humorous. A sentence 
often used by the person imitated should 
be chosen. 



GOING TO SERVICE. 



Go to service ; apply to the person who 
holds the forfeits for a place — say, as 
"maid of all work." The questions then 
to be asked are : "How do you wash ?" 
"How do you iron?" "How do you make 
a bed ?" "How do you scrub the floor ?" 
"How do you clean knives and forks ?" 
etc., etc. The whole of these processes 
must be imitated by motions, and if the 
replies be satisfactory, the forfeit must be 
given up. 

KISSING THE CANDLESTICK. 

When ordered to kiss the candlestick, 
you politely request a lady to hold the 
candle for you. As soon as she has it in 
her hand, she is supposed to be the candle- 
stick, and you, of course, kiss her. 

THE DISAPPOINTMENT. 

A lady advances towards the penitent, 
as if to kiss him, and when close to him, 
turns quietly round, and allows the ex- 
pected kiss to be taken by her nearest 
neighbor. 

THE FLORIST'S CHOICE. 

Choose three flowers. Example : Pink, 
Fuchsia, and Lily. Two of the party 
must then privately agree to the three per- 
sons of the forfeiter's acquaintance to be 
severally represented by the flowers. Then 
proceed: "What* will you do with the 
Pink ?" "Dip itin the water !" "What with 
the Fuchsia ?" "Dry it, and keep it as a 
curiosity!" "With the Lily?" "Keep it 
until it is dead, then throw it away." 
The three names identified with the flow- 
ers are now to be told, and their fates will 
excite much merriment. 

THE FOOL'S LEAP. 

Put two chairs back to back, take off 
your shoes, and jump over them. The 
fun consists in a mistaken idea that the 
chairs are to be jumped over, whereas it 
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THE RIDDLE. 

Guess the answer to this Riddle — 

It is said there's a person you've loved 
since a boy, 

Whose hand you must kiss ere I give 
you this toy; 

It is not your father, or mother, or sis- 
ter, 

Nor cousin, nor friend — take care not 



to miss, sir.' 



[Himself.] 



THE SECRET. 



This consists in whispering a secret to 
each member of the company. 

THE SCHOLAR'S "SPELL." 

Spell Constantinople, a syllable at a 
time. After spelling Con-stan-ti, all the 
others are to cry out, "Eo ! no !" meaning 
the next syllable. If the trick is not 
known, the speller will stop to show no 
mistake has been made, which is another 
forfeit; on the contrary, if no stop is 
made, the forfeit is restored. 

THE BLIND MAN'S CHOICE. 

The one who is to pay a forfeit stands 
with the face to the wall. One behind 
makes signs suitable to a kiss, a pinch, 
and a box on the ear, and then demands 
whether the first, second, or third be pre- 
ferred. Whichever it chances to be is 
given. 

THE CLOCK. 

A player is condemned to transforma- 
tion to a clock. He stands before the 
mantlepiece, and calls a player (of the op- 
posite sex) to him. The person thus called 
upon asks "the clock" what time it is. 
The clock replies, whatever hour he likes, 
— claiming the same number of kisses as 
he names hours of the day. 

If approved of, the player who has 
asked the time takes the place of the clock, 
and calls upon another; the original cere- 
mony being repeated in turn by all the 
players of the company. 



ARIADNE S LEOPARD ; OR, THE HOBBY- 
HORSE. 

The penitent, on his hands and knees, 
is obliged to carry round the room a lady, 
who is seated on his back, and whom all 
the gentlemen (himself excepted) are 
privileged to kiss in turns. 

HIT OR MISS. 

You are to be blindfolded, and turned 
round two or three times. Then you are 
to walk towards one of the company, and 
the handkerchief is to be taken off, that 
you may see the person you have touched. 
Then you are to kiss her hand. 

THE QUIET LODGER. 

The person who owns the forfeit may be 
called upon to choose one or two musical 
instruments. Having done so, he may be 
requested to imitate them. 

STOOPS TO CONQUER. 

Crawl around the room on all-fours 
forwards. Your forfeit shall then be laid 
upon the floor, and you must crawl back- 
wards to it, without seeing where it is 
placed. 

THE SOFA. 

The penitent places himself in the same 
position as for "Ariadne's Leopard," that 
is to say, on all-fours. He, however, re- 
mains stationary, receiving on his back a 
lady and a gentleman, who sit comfort- 
ably down and exchange a kiss. 

THE GALLANT GARDENER. 

Compare your lady-love to a flower, and 
explain the resemblance. Thus : — 
My love is like the blooming rose, 
Because her cheek its beauty shows. 
Or (facetiously) — 

My love is like a creeping tree — 
She's always creeping after me. 

THE STATESMAN. 

Ask the penitent what state he would 
like to represent in Congress; when the 
selection is made he is to spell his name 
backwards, without a mistake; if he fail, 



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he knows not the requirements of his con- 
stituents, and must lose his election. 

TO BE AT THE MERCY OF THE COMPANY. 

This consists in executing whatever 
task each member of the company may 
like to impose upon you. 

KISSING UNDER THE CANDLESTICK. 

This consists in kissing a person over 
whose head you hold a candlestick. 

TO KISS YOUR OWN SHADOW. 

Place yourself between the light and the 
person you intend kissing, on whose face 
your shadow w T ill be thrown. 

TO KISS THE ONE YOU LOVE BEST WITHOUT 
ITS BEING NOTICED. 

Kissing all the ladies in the company 
one after another without any distinction. 

THE TWO GUESSES. 

Place your hands behind you, and guess 
who touches them. You are not to be re- 
leased until you guess right. 

The person who owns the forfeit is to be 
blindfolded; a glass of water and a tea- 
spoon are then to be got, and a spoonful 
given alternately by the members of the 
company until the person blindfolded 
guesses aright. 

THE TRIO. 

Kneel to the wittiest, bow to the pret- 
tiest, and kiss the one you love best. 

THE STATUE OF LOVE. 

The player who owns the forfeit cried 
takes a candle in his hand, and is led by 
another to one end of the room, where he 
must stand and represent the Statue of 
Love. One of the players now walks up, 
and requests him to fetch some lady, whose 
name he whispers in Love's ear. The 
Statue, still holding the candle, proceeds 
to execute his commission, and brings the 
lady with him ; she in turn desires him to 
fetch some gentleman, and so it continues 
till all have been summoned. The players 
brought up by Love must not return to 
their seats, but stand in a group round 



Love's standing-place, until he has brought 
the last person in the company, when 
they hiss him most vigorously, and the 
forfeit terminates. 

THE CHANCE KISS. 

The penitent takes from a pack of cards 
the four kings and the four queens, 
shuffles them, and, without looking at 
them, distributes them to a proportionate 
number of ladies and gentlemen. The 
gentleman finding himself possessed of the 
king of hearts kisses the lady holding the 
queen, and so on with the rest. 

THE BLIND QUADRILLE. 

This is performed when a great number 
of forfeits are to be disposed of. A qua- 
drille is danced by eight of the company 
with their eyes blindfolded, and as they 
are certain to become completely bewil- 
dered during the figures, it always affords 
infinite amusement to the spectators. 

THE TURNED HEAD. 

This penalty should be imposed upon a 
lady. The fair one whose head is to be 
turned is invested with as many wrappings 
as possible, but every cloak, shawl, victo- 
rine, etc., is to be put on hindside before, 
so as to represent the appearance of "a 
turned head." She should be furnished 
with a muff, which she must hold behind 
her as much as possible in the usual man- 
ner, but her bonnet must be put on in the 
proper way. Thus equipped, she must 
enter the room walking backwards, and 
until her punishment is at an end, must 
continue to move in the same way. 

THE YARD OF LOVE RIBBON. 

One or more yards of Love Ribbon may 
be inflicted as a penalty. 

He (or she) who suffers this infliction 
must choose out a lady (or a gentleman), 
lead her (or him) into the middle of the 
circle, take her hands in his, extend them 
as far as the length of his arms will per- 
mit, and give (or receive), a kiss to (or 
from) the other. This is repeated with 
the same person as often as the number of 
Yards of Love Ribbon are inflicted, 



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FUN FOR ALL. 



PINNING THE TAIL ON THE DONKEY. 

fHIS unique game, when correctly 
played, is very amusing and will 
cause enough laughter to cure the worst 
case of indigestion on record. It is played 
in the following manner : 

Place upon the wall a large sheet or 
canvas, or, if nothing better, a large sheet 
of paper. Pin npon the same the picture 
of a black donkey without a tail, say six 
feet long from head to buttock, according 
to the picture here given. Then give- each 
person in the room a tail made of paper 
upon which a number should be placed. 
'Now, when all are ready, take the per- 
son having number one and stand him 
about sixteen feet in front of the donkey. 
Now blindfold him, then turn him around 
two or three times and start him off in the 
direction of the donkey, giving him a pin 



and telling him to pin the tail on the 
place where he thinks it belongs. After 
he has done this, take the bandage off the 
eyes and see the result. Then experi- 
ment with number two in the same way, 
then number three, and so on until all 
have had a trial. Of course it will be very 
ludicrous to see how many tails the donkey 
has and how few, if any, are put in the 
right spot. The one coming nearest 
should be , awarded a prize. 

The writer has seen this played a great 
many times and it never seems to grow 
wearisome. There is always sport and 
amusement in it. One of the good fea- 
tures of it is that everyone is willing to 
take part and never seem to mind the 
laughter when they pin the tail on the 
wrong spot — the nose or ears, for in- 
stance. 




BOOK VIII. 



DAINTY WORK FOR DEFT FINGERS 



OR BOYS' AND GIRLS' WORKSHOP, 

^^ ^* 4&* 



HE time has been when it was con- 
sidered quite the thing for young 
ladies to sit with the hands in the lap and 
wait for passing events to absorb their 
time. This is not true of the up-to-date 
girl for we find her everywhere either 
superintending the home cooking, looking 
after the family sewing or applying the 
deft fingers to dainty work. We suggest 
stitches for the new purses, bags, drawn 
work, etc., etc., which we believe will be 
appreciated. 



DRAWN WORK. 

ANDKEKCHIEFS, doilies, table 
% linen, towels, bed linen and the 
various articles of ladies' wardrobe can be 
made to surpass in beauty even the elab- 
orate old laces of European manufacture. 




Fig. l. 

The material used must be selected 
with care. All grades of linen may be 
used provided the threads are smooth. 
Lawn, scrim and silk may be decorated 
with this beautiful stitch. 



Secure the work either in a square or 
circular frame. Linen crochet thread No. 
80 is the most desirable on linen goods, 
but colored silks are frequently used and 
very handsome. On mull or coarse lawn, 
fine cotton thread should be used. 

After securing the linen, the next step 
will be to draw the threads. Some count 
the stitches but as the warp is sometimes 
heavier than the threads it will be impossi- 
ble to make a square opening, hence the 
pattern should be measured and marked. 

FOUNDATION" STITCHES. 

The foundation stitch is the knot stitch. 
When made in succession it is called the 
knot chain. To make a knot stitch, carry 




Fig. 2. 

the thread to the left, then upward to the 
right making a loop as in Fig. 1. The 
needle is then inserted under the drawn 
threads to be tied and the thread is drawn 
upward. 

This simple stitch is used for the hem 



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of a handkerchief, doily, towel or any 
simple patterns. 

A pretty insertion is made by drawing 
the threads to the desired width and then 
making at both the top and the bottom the 
knot stitch. Another pretty border is made 
as above and then running through the 
center a row of duck's tail. 



GREEK PURSE. 



ATEEIALS.— 5 skeins of blue 
silk, 3 skeins black, and 10 skeins 
of gold thread, and a fine hook. Work en- 
tirely in single crochet. 

With the blue silk make a chain of 5, 
close it into a round, and do 2 stitches in 
every stitch for 2 rounds. Join on gold. 

1st Bound. \- 2 blue on 1, 1 gold, + 

10 times. 

2nd Round. 1- 2 blue on 2, 2 gold on 

1, -f- 10 times. 

3rd Round. 1- 2 blue on 2, 3 gold on 

2, + 10 times. 

4th Round. J- 3 blue on 2, 3 gold on 

3, + 10 times. 




6th Round. f- 3 blue on 3, 4 gold on 

3, + 10 times. 

(Slh Round. (- 4 blue on 3, 4 gold on 

4, + 10 times. 



7th Round. \- 4 blue on 4, 5 gold on 

4, + 10 times. 

-f- 5 blue on 4, 5 gold on 



+ 5 blue on 5, 6 gold on 
- + 6 blue on 5, 6 gold on 



8th Round.— 

5, + 10 times. 

9th Round — 

5, -|- 10 times. 
10th Round.- 

6, + 10 times. 
11th Round. 1- 6 blue on 6, 7 gold on 

6, -f- 10 times. 

12th Round. 1- 7 blue on 6, 7 gold 

on 7, + 10 times. 

13th Round. — + 8 blue (on 7 blue, 
and the first of 7 gold), 5 gold, 1 more 
blue, + 10 times. 

14th Round. f- 9 blue (over 8 and 1 

gold), 3 gold, 2 blue, + 10 times. 

15th and 16th Round. — All blue. 

17th Round. \- 4 blue, 2 gold, 4 

blue, + 14 times. 

ISth Round, f- 3 blue, 4 gold, 3 

blue, + 14 times. 

19th Round. 1- 2 blue, 6 gold, 2 

blue, + 14 times. 

20th Round. \- 1 blue, 8 gold, 1 

blue, + 14 times. 

21st Round. 1- 1 blue, 2 gold, 1 blue, 

2 gold, 1 blue, 2 gold, 1 blue, + 14 times. 

22nd Round. \- 4 blue, 2 gold, 4 

blue, + 14 times. 

23rd Round. — All gold. Join on back. 

2Uh Round. \- 5 blue, 4 black, 7 

blue, 10 gold, 2 blue, + 5 times. 

25th and 26th Round. — The same. 

27th, 28th, and 29th Round. \- 2 

blue, 10 black, 7 blue, 4 gold, 5 blue, + 
5 times. 

30th, 31st, and 32nd Round. — Like 
24^. 

33rd, 3tth, and 35th Round. — Like 
27th. 

Repeat these 12 rounds, substitntinp: 
gold for black, and black for gold; and 
then do them again in the original colors, 
which will bring you to the COth round, 
all gold. 

Repeat backwards from 22nd to 17th 
inclusive; then 4 rounds of Sc, and 2 of 
+ 1 Dc, 1 Ch, miss 1 + in bine only. 

JEdging. — Gold + Sc under a chain, 1 



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Ch, miss 1 chain, and 2 Dc, 8 Dc under 
next chain, 1 Ch, miss 2 Dc, and the chain 
between them, + repeat all round. 

2nd Bow. — Black, Sc on every stitch of 
last round. 

Run the cords in the two rounds of open 
crochet, covering the ends with the small 
slides. Add the tassel. 

Many other colors would look well 
worked in this design. A rich green or 
claret might be substituted for blue; and 
with the latter ground, use blue for black. 



PURSE (NEW STYLE) ; CROCHET. 

IXCE the renewed introduction of 
ladies' purses they have undergone 



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many changes of size and shape. The one 
which this engraving illustrates is a new 
form, and very convenient for opening 
without much trouble. It is worked in 



crochet, which i3 the most durable style of 
work for purses. The color is a rich 
crimson. It is completed by being drawn 
in with a gold cord. It may, if preferred, 
be made up with those pretty little gold 
slides and a ring, now much used, which 
give it a more ornamental appearance. 



CROCHET COUNTERPANE. 

ATEKIALS.— No. 4 knitting cot- 
ton with a suitable hook. 
These patterns may be worked from the 
engraving in square crochet. Each is to 




be done separately, and four sewed to- 
gether, a small tuft of cotton is to be 
placed where the squares join. Another 




extremely pretty way of working a 
counterpane is to do the squares alter- 
nately in netting, darned in a pattern on 
a thick material, such as stout jaconet, or 



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DAINTY WORK FOR DEFT FINGERS. 



a very fine long cloth. Of course the thick 
and open squares are then placed alter- 
nately, and the effect is very good. It is 
well to wash and slightly stiffen the 
squares before darning them, and also to 
place them in a frame like that for canvas 
work. 



POMPADOUR BAG. 

ATEKIALS.— 1 skein of bright 
pink crochet silk ; half a skein of 
blue; half a skein of black; 10 skeins of 
gold thread, and passementerie trimmings. 

As our readers will conjecture, this 
purse derives its name from the union of 
blue and pink which it contains, and 
which is popularly termed the Pompadour 
mixture. 

With the pink silk make a chain of 8, 
close it into a round, and do a Sc stitch 



+ 3 P on 2, 1 G on 1, 
+ 3 P on 3, 2 G on 1, 




on every stitch, and a chain after every 
one. 

1st Round. — Pink and gold, + 2 P on 
1, 1 G, + 8 times. 



2nd Bound.- 
-f- 8 times. 

3rd Bound.- 
+ 8 times. 

teh Bound. — - 4 P on 3, 2 G on 2, 
+ 8 times. 

5th Bound. 1- 4 P on 4, 3 G on 2, 

+ 8 times. 

6th Bound. — Black and pink. + 5 P 
on 4, 3 B on 3 G, + 8 times. 

7th Bound. — Same colors. + 5 P on 
5, 4 B on 3, + 8 times. Fasten off black. 

8th Bound. 1- 6 P on 5, 4 G on 4 B, 

+ 8 times. 

9th Bound. \- 6 P on 6, 5 G on 4, 

+ 8 times. 

10th Bound. \- 7 P on 6, 5 G on 5, 

+ 8 times. JSTow fasten off the gold and 
join on the blue. 

Uth Bound. f- 7 P on 7, 6 Bl on 5 

G, + 8 times. 

12th Bound. f- 8 P on 7, 6 Bl on Bl, 

+ 8 times. 

13th Bound. f- 8 P on 8, 7 Bl on 6, 

+ 8 times. 

lUh Bound.— 8 P on 8, 8 Bl on 7, + 8 
times. Fasten off blue and join on gold. 

15th Bound. (- 9 P on 8, 8 G on 8 

Bl, -f- 8 times. Fasten on black. Do not 
fasten off the gold. 

16th Bound. 1- 9 P on 9, 8 B on G, 

+ 8 times. 

17th Bound. \- 9 P, 9 G on 8 B, 

-f- 8 times. 

18th Bound. f- 4 P, 1 G on 5th P of 

last round, 4 more P, 9 B on 9 G, + 8 
times. 

19th Bound. h 4 P, 1 G, 4 P, 7 G, 

+ 8 times. 

20th Bound. 1- 3 P, 3 G, 3 P, 4 B, 

1 P, 4 B, + 8 times. 

21s* Bound. 1- 3 P, 3 B, 3 P, 3 G, 

3 P, 3 G, + 8 times. 

22nd Bound. \- 3 P, 3 B, 3 P, 2 B, 

5 P, 2 B, + 8 times. 

23rd Bound. 1- 2 P, 5 G, 2 P, 1 G, 

7 P, 1 G, + 8 times. 

24*/* Bound. 1- 2 P, 5 G, 2 P, 1 B, 

7 P, 1 B, + 8 times. 



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351 



25th Bound.— Like 23rd. Fasten off 
the black and gold, and join on the blue. 

26th, 27th, and 28th Bounds. h 1 P, 

7 Bl, 10 P, + 8 times. 

29th and 30th Bounds. (- 9 Bl, 9 P, 

+ 8 times. Fasten off blue, and join on 
gold. 

31st Bound. \- 9 G, 9 P, + 8 times. 

Join on black. 

32nd Bound. f- 9 B, 9 P, + 8 times. 

33rd Bound. — Like 31st. 

3Uh Bound. h 9 B, 4 P, 1 G, 4 P, 

+ 8 times. 

35th Bound. h 9 G, 4 P, 1 G, 4 P, 

-f- 8 times. 

36th Bound. h 4 B, 1 P, 4 B, 3 P, 

3 G, 3 P, + 8 times. 

37th Bound. [- 3 G, 3 P, 3 G, 3 P, 

3 B, 3 P, + 8 times. 

38th Bound. f- 2 B, 5 P, 2 B, 3 P, 

3 B, 3 P, + 8 times. 

39th Bound. 1- 1 G, 7 P, 1 G, 2 P, 

5 G, 2 P, + 8 times. 

4:0th Bound. 1- 1 B, 7 P, 1 B, 2 P, 

5 G, 2 P, + 8 times. 

4:1st Bound. f- 1 G, 7 P, 1 G, 2 P, 

5 G, 2 P, + 8 times. Fasten off black 
and gold, and join on the blue. 

42nd, 43rd, and 4:4th Bounds. \- 10 

P, 7 Bl, 1 P, + 8 times. 

4:5th and 4:6th Bounds. f- 9 P, 9 Bl, 

+ 8 times. Join on black and gold, and 
fasten off blue. 

4:7th Bound. 1- 9 P, 9 G, + 8 times. 

4c8th Bound. 1- 9 P, 9 B, + 8 times. 

4:9th Bound. — Like 47th. 

Bepeat from the 18th round to the 
32nd, inclusive of both; then do two 
rounds of gold, and two open square cro- 
chet in pink. 

Edging. — Gold. -\- 5 Dc under chain, 
2 Ch, miss 2 squares, -f- repeat all round. 

Bun the cords in the two rounds of 
open square crochet. Cover the ends with 
the small gold slides, and add the tassel 
at the bottom of the purse. 




PURSE IN BEAD-WORK. 

ATERIALS.— Very fine scarlet 
B¥?l an d black silk, and small turquoise 
blue beads. Use a very fine crochet hook. 
Passementerie trimmings, to correspond. 
This purse is done in a somewhat differ- 
ent style to that in which beads are usually 
introduced into crochet, as they are simply 
sewed on in their places after the purse is 
completed. The pattern is done in black 
silk, on a rich scarlet or crimson ground. 
Make a chain of 8 with the scarlet silk, 
and work on it one round of Sc, with a 
chain stitch after every Sc stitch. Con- 




PUESE IX BEADWORK. 

tinue increasing by doing 8 chain in the 
round, after every second, third, fourth, 
fifth, and so on, so that the increase shall 
be at equal distances, until you have alto- 
gether 132, when make two extra, and do 
two rounds of scarlet without increase. 



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DAINTY WOKE FOB DEFT FINGERS. 



1st Pattern Bound. + 12 scarlet, 1 
black, 8 scarlet, 2 black, 10 scarlet, 1 
black, 10 scarlet, 2 black, 8 scarlet, 1 black 
12 scarlet, + twice. This and all the fol 
lowing rounds are to be repeated twice 
the two sides being alike. 

2nd. h 7 s, 1 b, 4 s, 3 b, 7 s, 3 b, 7 s 

lb, Is, lb, 7s, 3b, 7s, 3b, 4s, lb 

7 b, +. 

3rd. h 8 s, 2 b, 3 s, 4 b, 1 s, 8 b, 5 s 

1 b, 1 s, 1 b, 1 s, 1 b, 5 s, 8 b, 1 s, 4 b, 3 s 

2 b, 8 s, +. 

Wh. h 9 s, 11 b, 2 s, 6 b, 3 s, 1 b, 3 s 

1 b, 3 s, 6 b, 2 s, 11 b, 9 s, +. 

5th. 1- 2 s, 1 b, 4 s, 7 b, 2 s, 2 b, 3 s 

8 b, 2 s, 1 b, 1 s, 1 b, 1 s, 1 b, 2 s, 8 b, 3 s 

2 b, 2 s, 7 b, 4 s, 1 b, 2 s, +. 

6th. (- 2 s, 2 b, 2 s, 3 b, 2 s, 2 b, 2 s 

2 b, 3 s, 1 b, 3 s, 6 b, 2 s, 1 b, 1 s, 1 b, 2 s 
6 b, 3 s, 1 b, 3 s, 2 b, 2 s, 2 b, 2 s, 3 b, 2 s 
2 b, 2 s, +. 

7th. f- 3 s, 5 b, 2 s, 2 b, 3 s, 2 b, 3 s 

1 b, 2 s, 2 b, 3 s, 3 b, 2 s, 1 b, 2 s, 3 b, 3 s 

2 b, 2 s, 1 b, 3 s, 2 b, 3 s, 2 b, 2 s, 5 b, 3 s 

+. 

8th.— + 4 s, 3 b, 3 s, 2 b, 4 s, 2 b, 5 s 
2 b, 2 s, 5 b, 3 s, 5 b, 2 s, 2 b, 5 s, 2 b, 4 s 
2 b, 3 s, 3 b, 4 s, +. 

Mh. h 4 s, 2 b, 5 s, 2 b, 10 s, 2 b, 2 s 

2 b, 1 s, 2 b, 3 s, 2 b, 1 s, 2 b, 2 s, 2 b, 10 s 
2 b, 5 s, 2 b, 4 s, +. 

2b, lis, 2% 
Is, 2b, 3s, 



5 s, 



lb, 



lb 

2s 



3 b, 2 s, 2 b, 8 s, 2 b 



10th. h 4 s, 

2s, lb, 3s, 2b, 

1 b, 18 s, 2 b, 4 s, 

11th. f- 3 s, 

f s, lb, 3 s, 2 b, Is, 2 b, 3 s, lb, 17 s 

2 b, 2 s, 3 b, 3 s, +. 

12th.— + 3 s, 3 b, 3 s, 2 b, 8 s, 
lis, 2b, Is, 2b, 6s, lb, 13s, 2b 

3 b, 3 s, +. 

ISth. [- 3 s, 3 b, 

2s, 3b, Is, lb, Is, 
lb, 5s, 3b, Is, 3b, 
3 s, 3 b, 3 s, +. 

lUh. h 2s, 5b, Is 

Is, 4b, 2s, 2b, 3s, 
3 b, 1 s, 1 b, 2 s, 1 b, 1 

IMh. h Is, 3b, Is, 4b, 8s, 6b 

Is, 5b, 4s, lb, 5s, 2b, 5s, lb, 2s 



3 s, 

2 b, 

3 s, 



lb 
3s 



1 b, 10 s, 3 b 
Is, 2b, Is 
2b, 2s, lb 



2 b, 

a K 



2 b, 9 s, 4 b 
9s, lb, Is 
o b, 2 s, +. 



2 b, Is, lb, Is, 2 b, 3 s, 3 b ? Is, 3 b, 
Is, +. 

16th. h 5s, 2b, 3s, lb, 6s, 6b, 

Is, 5b, Is, lb, Is, lb, Is, lb, Is, 
2b, Is, lb, 2s, lb, 3s, 5b, 2s, 2b, 
6 s, 2 b, 4 s, +. 

17th. h 5 s, 2 b, 3 s, 3 b, 5 s, 10 b, 

Is, 2b, 2s, lb, 2s, 4b, Is, 3b, 3s, 

3 b, 2 s, 1 b, 8 s, 2 b, 4 s, +. 

18th. [- 2 s, 1 b, 1 s, 3 b, 4 s, 4 b, 4 s, 

2 b, 2 s, 3 b, 4 s, 1 b, 1 s, 11 b, 6 s, 3 b, 

4 s, 1 b, 4 s, 3 b, 1 s, 1 b, 1 s, +. 

19th. h 3 s, 3 b, 9 s, 6 b, 2 s, 7 b, 

2s, 4b, Is, lb, 2s, 4b, 4s, lb, 6s, 

2 b, 5 s, 3 b, 2 s, +. 

20th. 1- 14 s, 6 b, 3 s, 6 b, 4 s, 2 b, 

Is, lb, Is, lb, Is, 4b, 3s, lb, 5s, 

3 b, 11 s, +. . 

21st.— + 4s, lb, 4s, lb, 4s, 7b, 
2s, 6b, 2s, 4b, Is, lb, 7s, 3b, 3s, 

4 b, 13 s, +. 

22nd— + 4 s, 2 b, 1 s, 1 b, 1 s, 2 b, 5 s, 
3b, Is, lb, 2s, 2b, Is, 4b, Is, 4b, 

2 s, 1 b, 1 s, 4 b, 4 s, 3 b, 9 s, 1 b, 7 s, +. 

23rd h 5s, 3b, 2s, lb, 5s, 3b, 

Is, 2b, Is, 2b, Is, 3b, 3s, 4b, 3s, 

3 b, 6 s, 3 b, 1 s, 2 b, 5 s, 1 b, 7 s, +. 

24^. h ?s, 5b, Is, 3b, 3s, 7b, 

4 s, 9 b, 1 s, 3 b, 6 s, 4 b, 7 s, 1 b, 6 s, +. 

2Uh. \- 6 s, 2 b, 3 s, 3 b, 5 s, 7 b, 

3 s, 5 b, 1 s, 4 b, 2 s, 3 b, 16 s, 1 b, 6 s, +. 

26^. [- 10 s, 3 b, 3 s, 1 b, 2 s, 2 b, 

Is, 2b, 5s, lb, 2s, 2b, Is, 5b, 4s, 
3 b, 6 s, 3 b, 4 s, 3 b, 4 s, +. 

27th. f- 17 s, 1 b, 10 s, 2 b, 6 s, 4 b, 

12 s, 5 b, 2 s, 1 b, 1 s, 2 b, 4 s, +. 

28^. h 17 s, 3 b, 2 s, 3 b, 1 s, 3 b, 

7s, 2b, Is, lb, 7s, lb, 4s, 2b, Is, 

2 b, 2 s, 1 b, 2 s, 2 b, 3 s, +• 

29th. h 4 s, 1 b, 14 s, 1 b, 1 s, 5 b, 

2s, 3b, 5s, lb, 3s, lb, 6s, 2b, 4s, 

3 b, 3 s, 5 b, 3 s, +. 

30^.— + 3 s, 1 b, 12 s, 3 b, 2 s, 1 b, 
2 s, 2 b, Is, 5 b, 3 s, 2 b, 4 s, 3 b, 3 s, 
2 b, 7 s, 1 b, 3 s, 3 b, 4 s, +. 

31s*.— + 2s, 2b, 4s, lb, 5s, 2b, 
2s, lb, 2s, lb, 2s, 2b, Is, 2b, 2s, 
lb, 2s, lb, Is, lb, 4s, lb, 2s, 2b, 



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359 



Is, lb, 4s, lb, 2s, lb, Is, lb, 3s, 
1 b, 5 s, +. 

S2nd. h 2 s, 2 b, 3 s, 2 b, 4 s, 1 b, 3 s, 

lb, 4s, 3b, 2s, 2b, 2s, lb, 4s, 3b, 
7 s, 1 b, 5 s, 2 b, 1 s, 3 b, 2 s, 1 b, 6 s, +. 

lb, 

6 s, 

2 b, 

7 s, 
lb, 



33rd- + 2s, lb, 4s, 2b, 7s, 
8s, 2b, Is, 3b, 4s, 2b, 2s, lb, 
1 b, 5 s, 2 b, 2 s, 1 b, 2 s, 1 b, 7 s, +. 



4 s, 
2 b, 
Is, 



2 b, 
Is, 
2 b, 



3 s, 
lb, 
Is, 



2b, 4s, 3b, 2s, lb, 



Is, 

lb, 

2 s, 



lb, 

9 s, 



3 s, 



2 b, 
lb, 3s, 



SMh. h 2s, lb, 

Is, lb, 8s, 4b, 7s, 
2b, 3s, lb, 2s, lb, 

1 s, 1 b, 5 s, +• 

35M. h 3 s, 

9 s, 4 b, 8 s, 3 b, 10 s, 3 b, 2 s, 1 b, 6 s, 

2 b, 4 s, +. 

86ifc h 5 s, 3 b, 

10 s, 2 b, 9 s, 1 b, 1 s, 

3 b, 12 s, +. 

37th. h 4 s, 2 b, 

5s, lb, 2s, 2b, 2s, lb, 
1 b, 8 s, 1 b, 6 s, 1 b, 11 s, +. 

38th. h 3 s, 2 b, 2 s, 2 b, 4 s. 

6s, 2b, Is, lb, 3s, lb, 4s, 2b 

1 b, 6 s, 1 b, 7 s, 2 b, 10 s. 

39^. h 3s, lb, 3s, 2b, 5s. 

9s, lb, 2s, 3b, lis, 3b, Is, lb 

2 b, 10 s, +. 

4:0th. f- 9 s, 1 b, 14 s, 1 b, 4 s, 3 b, 

10 s, 3 b, 9 s, 1 b, 12 s, +. 

Do three rounds of scarlet only, and 
sew on the beads, as seen in the engraving. 
The other end must be worked in the same 
way. Then with the scarlet silk do a 
piece of open square crochet 3 inches deep. 
Crochet on to one end, slip on the rings, 
and crochet to the other end, taking care 
that the opening comes in the center of a 
side, and add the tassels. 



2 b, 3 s, 
7s, lb, 



2 b, 

3 s, 

2 b, 

5 s, 

lb, 

9 s, 



THE WORK-BASKET. 

HE foundation of the basket is in 
f |<^ cardboard, the bottom being an octa- 
gon, and the sides formed of eight pieces, 
cut exactly to fit its several sides, accord- 
ing to our illustration. These are to be 
covered on each side with silk, satin or 
velvet; the last-named, being the richest, 
produces the best effect. On the bottom a 



little wreath of forget-me-not is worked in 
beads, the flowers being blue, with a white 
bead in each center, and the leaves green. 
All the parts are then to be sewn together, 
taking a white chalk bead on the needle at 
every stitch, and putting them as close to- 
gether as possible, and with as much reg- 
ularity. All this being done, the basket ia 
now ready for the bead fringe, which is its 
greatest ornament. This is put on in 
loops all round, taking first a large bead, 




then three small ones, so completing the 
loop, and repeating the same till the cir- 
cuit has been made. The second row is 
made by commencing at the large bead of 
the last row, threading three small beads,- 
taking up one large one, then four small, 
then one large, then six small, one large, 
one small, then back through the last large 
(this forms the lowest part of the fringe), 
then six small, and pass the needle 
through the next large bead. Repeat this 
again, or even three times, if you wish to 
have a rich finish to your fringe. Then 
thread four small beads, and pass the 
needle through the larger one which forms 
the center of the row of diamonds ; thread 
three small beads, pass the needle through 
the large bead which completes the dia- 
mond, and so continue all round. 

The colors of these baskets have not 
been specified, because it is presumed that 
any young lady would employ such pieces 
as she might happen to possess, or could 



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easily obtain; any pretty tint looks well. 
For the fringe white beads suit every sort 
of material, of whatever color, and simply 
making choice of a large bead that will 
harmonize or contrast with the silk, satin, 
or velvet, ensures a good effect. 



VANDYKE COLLAB. 

.^l^HIS pretty collar can easily be 
<fp) worked by any young lady. In- 
deed, any one who may execute it will be 
very much pleased with the result of her 




A slight strip of whalebone covered with 
ribbon and crossed with beads, makes a 
very suitable handle. Set it on with a bow 
of ribbon, or it may be ornamented with 
any pretty slight device in the beads; but 
this is merely a matter of taste. 



labors. As it is formed of points, we only 
give the instructions for one, which can 
then be repeated until the collar is the re- 
quired size. Make a chain, the length of 
the collar round the neck, on which work 
a row of one double and one chain every 



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361 



alternate stitch; after which, work three 
or four rows — all the same — of four dou- 
ble and four chain, making the four dou- 
ble on the four chain of the last row. 
Xow begin the pattern of the points: — 
Chain four, two double, three chain, two 
double; these four double crochet stitches 
are all worked in one stitch of the last 
row; repeat the four chain, leaving six 
stitches of the last row between each of 
the four double; repeat these four chain, 
and four double with three chain between 
seven times. This is the first row of the 
point. Work three rows the same, making 
the double stitches over each other for 
three rows, only making two chain, one 
double, and two chain, between the four 
double in the two last rows, instead of the 
four chain. The next row, work only six 
instead of the seven, and work the four 
double over the one double of the last row. 
Work three rows the same. It requires 
seven rows to form each point ; each three 
rows form the pattern ; and it is by repeat- 
ing these rows, only leaving one less at the 
commencement and end of each pattern, 
which forms the point. In this pattern 
there will not be found the least difficulty, 
which is a very great recommendation in 
this sort of work. Seven points will be 
found about the right number for a full- 
sized collar. 



COLLAR Iff GUIPURE EMBROIDERY. 

HE collar being an essential article 
of dress, we supply the design for 
one, which will be found both rich and ele- 
gant when completed, although it does not 
require any great amount of work. The 
engraving shows the right size for any 
lady. The only difference that need be 
made is in the length round the neck, 
which can be adjusted by adding one or 
two more scollops if required. In com- 
mencing the embroidery the first thing is 
to put in the connecting lines (Venetian 
bars) with Xo. 8 Crochet Cotton. The 



largest flowers are worked in raised but- 
ton-hole stitch; the small holes are sewn 
round. The two lines which enclose the 
oval holes must be done in the fine button- 
hole stitch. When the embroidery is com- 
pleted, the parts of the muslin which are 
under the connecting lines of the crochet 
cotton must be cut away, leaving the de- 
sign clear and distinct. The proper mate- 




rial for this collar is cambric muslin. 
Connecting lines, or Venetian bars, are 
worked by passing one, two, or more 
threads across any open space, and then 
covering them from end to end with close 
button-hole stitch. Raised button-hole 
stitch is worked by passing a few stitches 
of thick soft cotton the opposite way of the 
work for a foundation before working the 
button-hole stitch ; the greater the number 
of threads the more the work will be 
raised. 



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INITIAL WREATH. 

HIS Flower Wreath is intended to 
contain, within its interior, the 
initials of the name of the person for 
whose use it is constructed. It looks ex- 
tremely well in the corner of a pocket- 
handkerchief, making quite an ornamental 




corner ; but it is also perfectly suitable for 
many other purposes. It requires to be 
worked very neatly ; for, if the flowers be- 
come confused, it loses half its beauty. 



EMBROIDERY BORDER. 

MBROIDEKY is such pleasant 
work, that most young ladies like to 
have a small piece in hand, ready to take 
up at any or all of those leisure half -hours 
which are constantly arising; indeed, it is 
very good management always to have 
some such sort of work ready to go on 
with, as it is really surprising to see how 
soon a pretty pattern of embroidery comes 
to a conclusion in this way, without seem- 
ing ever to have required much labor. 
The design which we have given will be 
found very useful for this purpose. It is 
suitable for trimming various articles of 
dress, being both light and pretty. The 
part between the center and edge of each 
flower is to be cut out. 



COMIC PATCHWORK. 

SOME years ago, when the resources of 
the work-table were much fewer and 
more expensive, those of our granddames 



who were fond of fancy-work were obliged 
to exercise their taste and ingenuity on 
very humble materials. A "rag-bag" was 
provided in every house, and it is to be 
lamented that such a useful institution 
should have fallen into disuse. The rag- 
bag being sorted up at stated intervals, 
many and various were the articles con- 




EMBROIDERY BORDER. 



structed from the contents thereof; patch- 
work quilts being perhaps the greatest and 
most lasting works achieved from the 
heterogeneous mass of materials, 






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Comic patchwork is a series of irregular 
geometrical figures, so combined as to 
form a representation of the human figure 
in various attitudes. 

From the necessity of using angles more 
or less acute, in this kind of work, the 
figures have always a grotesque appear- 
ance. The design now described is one 
which, although presenting apparent diffi- 
culty in the execution, will be found per- 
fectly practicable, if the directions given 
are carefully attended to. 



which case a pretty lining for the back, 
and ribbon to finish the edge handsomely, 
will be necessary. 

The ground color is of considerable im- 
portance in this kind of work, as, should 
too bright a tint be employed, the effect 
of the figures is quite spoiled. Black silk 
is not objectionable, but by far the best 
material that can be employed is gray 
glace silk — that kind which is made of 
black and white woven together, but not 
a dyed gray. 




The quantity of silk required to cover 
each piece is so small, that those who keep 
up a silk rag-bag will have but little trou- 
ble in assorting the necessary number of 
colors. 

This design may be, when finished, 
stretched on a frame to form a screen, in 



The pattern should be carefully drawn 
or traced on a sheet of paper. And the 
worker is recommended to number the 
pieces, as in the copy, as a guide to the 
coloring. 

Should further aid be necessary, it will 
be found useful to tint the pattern slightly 



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with water-color, and then to proceed as 
follows : 

The piece in the corner marked with a 
cross X should he cut out first, and cov- 
ered carefully with the gray silk ; a second 
piece should then be cut out, covered, and 
sewed to the first, before another is cut off. 
Proceed in this way until all the pieces are 
covered and sewn together. Observe that 
only one piece is to be cut from the pat- 
tern at a time, otherwise confusion would 
ensue, and the work be spoiled. 

An experienced needlewoman will find 
no difficulty in executing this pattern, but 
those who attempt silk patchwork for the 
first time must be careful, when cover- 
ing the pieces, to fold the silk exactly over 
the edge, neither leaving any extra space, 
or turning down any portion of the paper. 



WORK-BOX. 



HIS pretty and useful adjunct of the 
w T ork-table is composed of coarse 
perforated cardboard, graduated shades of 
silk, from dark brown to very bright, light 
scarlet. Cut out four pieces of the card- 
board ten inches long, and three inches 
wide; these are for the bottom, the two 




sides, and the lid, and must be all the same 
size ; two other pieces, which form the 
ends, are two squares three inches each 
way. A very regular and even margin 
must be left round each piece about half 
an inch wide. Commence with the dark 



brown silk and work a row of squares the 
whole length of the box. Continue to work 
these squares in as many shades as will 
fill up the cardboard. After all the six 
pieces of cardboard are worked in this 
manner, bind them all round neatly with 
a narrow ribbon the same color as the light 
red silk, and sew them closely together. 
The handle is formed of a strip of card- 
board worked in the same manner, and 
fastened on at each end with a bow of red 
ribbon. The lid is then sewn on the whole 
length of the back, and tied in the front 
with a bow of ribbon to match the handle, 
and this very pretty box is completed. 



PYROGRAPHY, OR BURNT WOOD. 

XJEJSTT wood etchings are quite the 
newest things in way of pastime. 
This can be done by old or young. Boys 
six years of age are doing very clever 
pieces at little expense and trouble. The 
outfit consists of a platinum needle and 
various other apparatus as indicated on 
next page. It can be purchased complete 
from almost any art dealer. The Pratt 
Manufacturing Co. of Lansing, Michigan, 
are the manufacturers and will mail prices 
on application. Orders sent them will be 
given prompt attention. 

Pyrography, as we said above, is exe- 
cuted by the use of the platinum point. 
Platinum is a perfect metal, on which no 
single acid has any effect, and is the only 
metal suitable for the pyrographic point, 
as it has the peculiar property of absorb- 
ing the benzoline gas used for heating, and 
of feeding upon the vapor conveyed to the 
point by the India rubber bellows. The 
interior arrangement of the point consists 
of a small platinum sheath, partially in- 
closing a fine coiled platinum wire, which, 
extending some way beyond it, is again 
inclosed by the outer and larger sheath of 
the same metal. This is the "point" from 
which the heat is conveyed direct to the 
wood. The process may be applied not 
only to pictorial effects on wood, but to the 



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ornamentation of leather, furniture, pic- 
ture f ranies, screens, toilet articles, the 
covers of hooks, and many other things 
which will suggest themselves with prac- 



of doors may be adorned with cupids and 
flowers, or any fancy design, the purity 
and delicacy of outline giving a charming 
appearance. Tables, chairs and screens 




BURNT WOOD OUTFIT. 



tice and experiment. The owner of a 
country house in England has had the 
"Legend of Sleepy Hollow" done in pyrog- 







raphy on the woodwork of a fireplace, 
the rich sepia tints lending themselves 
beautifully to the poetic work. The panels 



are suitable objects for the exercise of 
taste and skill in pyrography. Teaching, 
aside from practice, is of no avail in this 




simple art. What he will make of it de- 
pends on the student himself. Let him 
purchase the outfit necessary and with 



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suggestions go to work ; no more is needed. 
Nothing is really nicer for Xmas presents, 




birthday souvenirs and the like than 
articles made after the manner described. 



SPECTACLE CASE. 

ANY young ladies have friends and 
relations to whom they feel it to 
be a great pleasure to be able to make little 
offerings of affection. The Spectacle Case 
is one of a very useful kind, as well as 
being ornamental. 

Tt is to be worked on very fine canvas. 
The foliage is done in white, shaded with 
a soft grey; the staff, around which the 
sprays of leaves are clustering, and of 
which little more than the ends show, 
is gold-color, or yellow. The ground 



is a light, brilliant, French blue. The 
border is done by making the little pat- 
tern in black, on a yellow or gold-col- 
ored ground. When the work is finished, 
the parts must be stitched on a piece of 
cardboard cut to the right size, and lined 
with silk; then the back and front parts 




must be neatly sewn together. The pret- 
tiest way of hiding the stitches is to go 
over them with a row of seed-beads, either 
gold or chalk-white, taking a bead on the 
needle at every stitch. We have said that 
the leaves are to be worked in white shaded 
withgrey. White floss-silk, or shiny cotton. 



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hardly be complete without sugges- 
tions and helps upon "how to attain per- 
fection in personal appearance and good 
manners." The subject here treated is re- 
plete with everything that is helpful to 
both men and women, young or old. 

TRI-WEEKLY EXERCISES. 

FOR HEALTH AND GOOD LOOKS. 

OW to get strength and beauty is 
the important question. It can be 
largely answered in the method adopted 
by a woman after she has indulged in vio- 
lent exercise for three-quarters of an hour. 
At the end of that time she is in a glow 
and, if not actually perspiring, is near it, 
and is breathless and tired. 

The best thing to do, after exercising, 
is to lie down and cover up and, if one 
feels like it, take a nap of fifteen minutes. 

A warm bath, nearly 96 degrees, should 
now be taken with soap and the flesh 
scrubbing brush. This is the best of all 
times to clear the pores of the skin. Go 
over the skin thoroughly, touching the 
neck and cheeks lightly. 

A second bath with enough benzoin in 
the water to make it milky is necessary to 
clear off the soap. This done, the seeker 
for physical culture will find herself am- 
ply rewarded by the results that will fol- 
low. 

The woman who is merely seeking to 
improve her general physical condition 



can be content with this treatment twice a 
week. 

TO OVERCOME DEFORMITY. 

According to good authority, it is quite 
possible by proper exercise to modify the 
shape of any bone which can be operated 
on by pressure. Bones, like all other tis- 
sues, are not permanent. They are being 
renewed particle by particle every mo- 
ment. When a crooked bone has pressure 
made on it to restore it to a right shape 
the pressure is at first antagonistic to every 
cell of the bone, since it is an attempt to 
alter the position of the cells. But if the 
pressure is constant, as the new cells are 
formed they yield to it, and fall into the 
line which it is sought to give the bone. 

Physical culture exercises will straight- 
en bowed legs in young children and over- 
come stooped shoulders. 



TO BRING ABOUT A GOOD FIGURE. 

CERTAIN opera singer, who was 
narrow in the chest, rubbed each 
night a handful of cocoa oil into her flesh. 
Massage, oil and exercise did the work. 
Usually the exercise of singing will round 
out the chest, but all cannot sing. 

Another good way is to take the pose 
which is called by the physical culturists 
"The Goddess of Liberty" pose. A weight 
is taken in the hand and the arm is 
stretched to the limit above the head, pre- 
cisely as Miss Liberty holds the torch 
down in New York harbor. 



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The weight is lowered and lifted again 
until the arm feels fatigued. 

Another exercise is that of stretching 
the arm out at the side. A weight is held 
in the hand, and possibly in the fingers. 
This strengthens the wrist at the same 
time, for, where the bust is undeveloped, 
the arms and wrists will generally be 
found flabby, if not actually lean. 

This motion of lifting the weight and 
thrusting it out at one side is a good one, 
and can be practiced with one arm and 
then with the other, with a hand resting on 
one hip to steady it. This is called San- 
dow's lift. 

A fine movement for broadening the 
chest is found in the arm and neck ges- 
tures. The hands are clasped behind the 
head and the head is thrown backward. 
The elbows are directly out and lifted 
squarely at each side. It is a stretching 
movement and exercises every muscle 
there is in the chest. Below are a num- 
ber of exercises the following of which will 
develop various muscles of the body. 

DEVELOPING MUSCLE IN THE ARM. 

Getting strength in the arms is one of 
the most tedious of all physical perform- 
ances, but one can certainly succeed. 

It all depends upon practice, though 
there is, to be sure, a little art about it. 

Frequently women are strong in one set 
of muscles and weak in another. The 
woman who irons constantly is strong in 
the lower or fore arm, though she may 
be so weak in the upper arm that she can- 
not life an ordinary burden, much less real 
weight. 

For physical culture and home devel- 
opment there is nothing better than a lit- 
tle exercise with the ball. Take one that 
seems easily handled, not too heavy by any 
means, nor too light, and if one has space 
in which to practice it, she will find that 
it gives the best of all exercises in physical 
culture. 

If one learns to manage a weight like 
this properly she will do more than de- 
velop the arms. She will round out the 



throat, make the neck plump, bring sym- 
metry to the arms, and strength to the 
hands. 

STRENGTHENING THE CHEST. 

Besides these good points one will un- 
consciously bring out the muscles in the 
legs and make the spine firm. The test 
of a good exercise is its ability to bring 
into play every muscle in the human body 
at once ; and for this a good course in ex- 
ercises with the ball can be most highly 
recommended. 

A Wall street man who suffered from a 
narrow chest, and whose tendency to 
cough alarmed his family, was advised by 
his physician to practice fifteen minutes 
night and morning with a handball. Se- 
lecting a vacant room in the house for his 
operations, he repaired there each day and 
threw the ball against the wall, catching it 
on the rebound. He selected a small rub- 
ber ball with plenty of spring in it, and, 
after a few days, became so expert that 
he could perform wonderful tricks with 
the ball, throwing it with great force 
and keeping it on the bound for some 
minutes. 

It seemed like a trivial pastime for a 
man of millions, but he became much in- 
terested in it, and in the end it cured his 
cough, strengthened his chest, and gave 
him the exercise he so much needed. He 
played ball with the windows open to in- 
sure plenty of fresh air. 

In practicing with the ball, whether it 
be a rubber ball or one of heavier com- 
position, try these three movements, in 
which the body is bent sideways, while the 
hand is stretched out for balancing the 
figure, and the body is inclined as much 
as possible. 

One leg is stretched straight, while the 
weight of the body is thrown upon the 
other knee, which is slightly bent. The 
ball is held in the hand, over the bent knee, 
and the chest is free and the lungs are 
open to receive 1 a good, long breath. For 
house practice a large rubber ball, as 
heavy as possible, will be best. 




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STRENGTHENING THE BACK. 

An exercise which has little grace, but 
is useful for strengthening the back, con- 
sists in grasping the ball with both hands 
and leaning forward as if one were about 
to throw it. Great strength can be 
acquired in this way, for the body is in a 
trying position, and the back has a strain 
put upon it just where it is weakest — 
namely : across it, just above the belt. 

A third exercise is more than good. To 
perform it lie upon your back in the mid- 
dle of the floor and lift one foot until it 
stands high in the air, at right angles with 
the body. An assistant will now be re- 
quired to place the ball upon your foot, 
while you try to balance it. When expert 
it will not be difficult to bend the knee, 
place the ball on the sole of the shoe, and 
lift it again without dropping the ball, but 
at first this will not be possible. 

These three exercises will greatly assist 
the one who is anxious to find true phys- 
ical culture. 

FOR THE LEGS. 

Place the heels on a chair in the posi- 
tion shown, and, resting on the arms, grad- 
ually raise and lower the body. This ex- 
ercise, in addition to developing the leg 
muscles, is very good for the chest and 
stomach. After trying this exercise half 
a dozen times in the morning, take a walk 
or a short run, and you will be surprised 
to find how much more nimble you feel, 
and how much easier it is to expand the 
chest and contract the stomach. 

TO REDUCE THE WAIST MEASURE. 

The great value of the following exer- 
cises is to reduce the waist measure and 
give to the whole body a delightful feel- 
ing of freedom and suppleness. 

Rest with the feet on a seat of a chair 
and one arm on the floor. Gradually 
lower yourself until your hip barely 
touches the floor, and then raise yourself 
with one arm until the body is again in a 
horizontal position with the head level 
with the feet. 



If you find this exercise too difficult at 
first try it face downward with both hands 
on the floor. By lowering and raising 
your body several times a day from the 
ground to a position in which the head is 
level with the feet resting on the chair 
seat, the muscles of the arms and shoulders 
and back will be greatly developed. 

As soon as you are able to do this face- 
downward exercise with ease, then take 
up the one-arm movement. By throwing 
practically the whole weight of the body 
on the arm and shoulder and raising and 
lowering yourself, you will soon find that 
not only the muscles of the arm and shoul- 
der, but also of the back and sides, are be- 
ginning to bulge out beautifully. 

Vary the exercise by using first one arm 
and then the other, so as to keep the mus- 
cles on both sides balanced. 

TO DEVELOP THE WHOLE BODY. 

There are other things besides muscles 
that need attention in a course of physical 
development. I refer to the kidneys, the 
stomach and other internal organs. They 
require exercises of their own just as 
much as the muscles do. 

Here is an excellent way to exercise 
them all at once, and at the same time 
keep them healthy and in perfect condi- 
tion : Fasten a broomstick or a portiere 
pole across the doorway about level with 
the pit of the stomach. Then lean over 
the pole as far as you can ; first face down- 
ward and then backward. 

Take care not to strain yourself by lean- 
ing too far at first. Just take this exercise 
easily and gradually; bend lower and 
lower day by day. 

These two bending exercises should be 
tried always before eating, or at least two 
or three hours after a meal. I find them 
most beneficial early in the morning after 
jumping out of bed, and again at night 
just before retiring. They will strengthen 
the kidneys and also the muscles of the 
legs and back. Always make sure that the 
pole is not going the slip or to break when 
you lean on it. Throw your weight on 



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the crossbar in doing this exercise and 
rest the hands on the hips. 

With an ordinary piece of clothesline, 
or, better still, a stout piece of elastic, 
about five feet long, you can add another 
very good exercise to your list for arm 
and leg developers. Double the rope, put 
one foot through the loop, and, holding 
the ends of the rope in one hand, hoist up 
your foot. Then bear down with your 
foot and force the arm down again until 
your foot touches the floor. This exercise 
is more satisfactory when an elastic rope 
is used, because then the arm can be kept 
stationary at the side. But whether you 
use the elastic rope or the clothesline the 
exercise will do the muscles of the arms 
and legs a great deal of good. Vary the 
exercise by changing the rope from the 
right leg and right arm to the others from 
time to time. 



BREATHING FOR HEALTH AND BEAUTY 

fNSTEAD of swallowing Spring medi- 
cine, let one get out in the sunshine 
and inhale the fresh, pure and wholesome 
Spring air, nature's best and cheapest 
Spring medicine. 

Fresh air has a great deal more to do 
with muscular development than some 
people would imagine. I know at least 
two remarkably strong men, both profes- 
sors of physical culture, who declare that 
their perfect physical development is due 
almost entirely to proper breathing. 

That does not mean sitting in a chair 
in the sunshine and merely expanding the 
lungs. To acquire the art of breathing 
properly it is necessary to learn how to 
breathe when walking, when running, 
when boxing or wrestling, and, in fact, 
how to breathe at all times. 

Once more let me impress on every 
young man who is striving to attain a 
perfect muscular development the neces- 
sity of breathing through the nose all the 
time. Take big breaths, that will expand 
the lungs, and always breathe slowly and 
steadily. Keep the shoulders thrown well 



back, the chest out and stomach in, so 
that the lungs are not cramped. At all 
times in sitting, standing or walking keep 
the shoulders thrown back. 

WALKING FOE HEALTH AND BEAUTY. 

Let every one walk in the open air. 
'Keep your mind on the fact that you are 
walking for the good it is doing you, and 
always remember to fill the lungs at every 
inhalation. 

In fine, bright, clear weather, morning 
walks will bring a very pronounced feel- 
ing of exhilaration. As a result one will 
sleep better, work better and eat more 
heartily. And, what is more satisfactory 
still, they will certainly add an inch or 
two to your chest measurement in a very 
few weeks. 

At night repeat the walk, practicing the 
same breathing exercises you followed in 
your morning walk. However, never walk 
if you feel very tired; it will do you no 
good. 

Another thing: Don't imagine that a 
walk like the one suggested will benefit 
you if you only indulge in it once a week 
or once a month. Exercise of any kind is 
only beneficial when used systematically. 
You must resolve to walk at least two 
miles every day, and keep it up during 
mild weather. 

If you live in a neighborhood that is 
somewhat secluded, and where you will 
not attract much attention, here is a little 
plan you can pursue before going to bed. 
Make up your mind to cover a mile or two, 
and do this: run a block, then walk a 
block, and so alternate until you have cov- 
ered the distance you intend to travel. 
When running, do not try to sprint, but 
just take a long, easy stride, not more 
than a little jog trot. You will find this 
will make you breathe deeper and harder, 
and will perhaps make you perspire a 
little. 

Go home immediately; do not lounge 
in the street or stop to talk to any one, but 
go right to your room. Strip and rub 
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towel. Then take a sponge, or wet a 
towel with the water as it runs from the 
faucet, and sponge off jour body without 
using soap of any kind. It may chill you 
for an instant, but begin at once to rub 
yourself dry with a rough bath towel, and 
in a very few minutes you will feel a 
warm, healthful glow extending over your 
entire body. Eub until the skin shows a 
nice, clear pink, and you feel warm and 
perfectly dry. Then go to bed. Don't 
sit up and read. Just go to bed. 

TO REDUCE THE WEIGHT. 

Abstain from all greasy foods. Don't 
eat meat, candy, cakes or white bread. To 
reduce one's weight without injury to the 
muscles take a hot bath every week in a 
heated room where one can perspire freely. 
Then sponge in cold water. Exercise reg- 
ularly every morning and evening. Eat 
plenty of vegetables and fruit and never 
eat anything between meals. Perhaps it 
would be a good idea to try fasting one 
day every two weeks. That's a good, safe 
way to reduce the weight. 



POISONS OF TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL. 

fE one wishes to be healthy and beauti- 
ful they must let alcohol and tobacco 
alone. This, of course, applies only to 
men, but as young men are as anxious to 
be manly and beautiful before the world 
as possible, we repeat that all physicians 
are agreed in that when evil effects ensue 
upon smoking tobacco they are very much 
intensified by indulging in alcohol. It is 
pointed out further that even if, after a 
more than moderate indulgence in tobacco, 
no toxic symptoms such as headache or 
stupor may supervene, yet such would 
probably be the case if alcoholic drinking 
was practiced at the same time. 

The powerfully solvent action of alcohol 
is sufficient explanation of this. It is, of 
course, well known in pharmacology that 
the active constituents of drugs are, as a 
rule, readily soluble in alcohol, though 



not in water, and hence the class of 
preparations known as tinctures. 

Similarly nicotine and the pyridine 
bases are very easily soluble in alcohol. 
The chief poisonous constituent of tobacco 
smoke is pyridine and not nicotine. Pyri- 
dine is a poisonous base not so easily solu- 
ble in water as in alcohol. Pyridine bases 
can be easily traced in the mouth of an 
immoderate smoker, and especially the 
smoker of cigars. 

An alcoholic drink is therefore calculat- 
ed quickly to wash out this poisonous oil 
and to carry it into the stomach, absorp- 
tion of the poison ensuing, giving rise to 
definite toxic symptoms, due not so much 
to alcohol or pyridine bases alone as to the 
combined action of both in the manner in- 
dicated. 

Such symptoms might possibly be avoid- 
ed if smokers would abstain from drink- 
ing alcohol at the same time that smoking 
is being indulged in. Many a headache or 
malaise would thus be guarded against if 
at the time of smoking no alcoholic bever- 
age were taken. 

So I say again, if you would be the 
man you want to be stop using tobacco in 
every form and don't indulge in any in- 
toxicating liquors. Take plenty of baths. 
Don't eat meat. Go to bed early, and 
never sleep over eight or nine hours at the 
very most. 

That long list of things you should or 
should not do may sound very much like 
so many unnecessary hardships. 

Let it suffice to say that I knew a young 
man slightly over a year ago who was a 
rheumatic cripple, far weaker than the 
average boy of sixteen years. He followed 
the advice about smoking, eating, sleep- 
ing, drinking and breathing which I have 
just given to you, devoting just as much 
time as he could spare every day to exer- 
cises tending to loosen up his stiffened 
joints and to develop his puny muscles. 
To-day he is as perfect a specimen of man- 
hood as I have ever seen. Try it. 

There is no reason why every other 
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muscles by persistent training and the ap- 
plication of a little self denial. 



HOW TO ACQUIRE A GENTLE VOICE. 

ME. MAKCHESI, the great vocal 
Erench teacher, once said : "Why, 
oh why, do American women all speak 
through their noses ?'" 

An Englishman once good naturedly 
said that the southern American voice was 
sweeter than the American voice of the 
north, because it was languid and unhur- 
ried, while the northern or middle state 
yankee voice always gave the impression 
of high tension. "In !New York or Chi- 
cago, for example," he said, "your people 
(addressing me) are always excited, al- 
ways in a hurry, and the voice in such 
cases is naturally pitched higher, and it 
does not take long to form the habit of 
speaking in the high nasal voice that is cer- 
tainly a national defect in your charming 
countrywomen. 

"But the southern woman's voice also 
has a twang, and her manner of pronounc- 
ing her vowels, her absolute disdain for 
final g's, is quite as trying as the Puritan 
high pitch. JSTow, you must admit that 
America produces the most charming, the 
most beautiful women, but they are all 
disappointing when they speak." 

HINTS ON" TREATMENT. 

If the speaking voice is nasal, weak, 
harsh, high-pitched or muffled it can by 
proper treatment be made soft, low, clear 
and harmonious. 

In the treatment of the defective voice 
the first consideration is the general 
health. Attention must be given to proper 
diet, bathing, exercise and rest. 

She must learn how to carry herself, for 
proper carriage of the body is essential to 
normal breathing, and therefore to proper 
tone. 

The exercises in breathing, standing 
and sitting that have been given in this 
department all have a direct bearing upon 
the development of the voice, but the fol- 



lowing exercises are especially commended 
for the students who wish to cultivate a 
pure, agreeable tone in speaking. 

Practice these exercises for a time, ly- 
ing or reclining. 

They are what is known as exercises for 
position and for complete breathing. 

EXERCISE NO. 1. 

Lie flat on the back, or easily in a re- 
clining chair. Inhale a long, deep breath. 
E"ow, without attempting to hold the 
breath, exhale it as if whispering "sh," as 
in the word hush, until the breath is ex- 
hausted. Don't use too much force — just 
enough to make the "sh" faintly audible. 

Now stand erect, weight forward as 
shown in the exercises for acquiring 
equilibrium. Chest up, head back. Re- 
peat the exercise. 

You must not try to see how long or 
how loud you can make the "sh," but quite 
the opposite. Try to see how very softly 
and easily you can do it, and with the 
least possible effort. 

EXERCISE NO. 2. 

Take a seat in an erect position or lie 
down easily. Inhale a deep, quiet breath 
and exhale with a little hum on a medium 
pitch until the breath is exhausted. Don't 
listen to the sound of the hum, but try to 
see how softly and gently you can pro- 
duce it. Remember that the main point 
is ease. When emitting a soft, gentle hum, 
the position of the vocal organs is correct 
for tone. Eor this reason the practice of 
this exercise is most important. 

After a little exercise on the hum, try 
combining it with the vowels closed "ee" 
and "oo." This would make m-ee m-oo. 
Be careful not to change the quality of 
the tone as you pass from the "m" sound 
to the vowel. 

Remember that the vocal position in the 
soft, gentle hum is the correct position for 
tones, and when you are able to combine 
this with the vowel sounds the throat will 
gradually learn to remain passive during 
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After practicing a little while on the 
closed vowels try to combine the "m" with 
the open vowels "ah" and "aw" (m-ah, 
m-aw). 

You will find a difficult point is in 
changing from the hum to the vowel. 
When the mouth opens to form the vowel 
"ee," "oo," "ah" or "aw," unless the 
change is executed with the greatest care 
and gentleness, the entire position of the 
throat is apt to be deranged. While prac- 
ticing this exercise think only of one point 
— ease — the reduction or elimination of all 
effort. 

EXERCISE NO. 3. 

Practice this exercise walking up and 
down the room. Relax every muscle of 
the body and walk as though you were al- 
most ready to fall from fatigue, using only 
enough muscular force to preserve the 
equilibrium. 

Eelax all the muscles of the face, and 
the throat as well, and very gently hum a 
scale in the middle of the voice. 

Remember that you are to make no ef- 
fort. Don't try to create tones. Do not 
listen to your voice, but just see how soft- 
ly, gently and easily you can hum a scale, 
or arpeggio. 

The great difficulty in this exercise is to 
prevent the tendency to use throat ac- 
tion, especially on the upper notes. 

The way to guard against this is by 
humming the high notes so very gently 
that there is no effort. 

Dr. Latson says, and I entirely agree 
with him, that there is an intimate con- 
nection between the quality of the voice 
and the mental state. 

passion's ill results. 
Hatred, anger, jealousy make the voice 
harsh, metallic or choked. Worry or ex- 
citement render, the voice uncertain in 
pitch and quality, and sometimes lead to 
stammering or stuttering. Mental depres- 
sion is indicated by a monotonous, hollow, 
guttural tone. On the other hand, health, 
joy, love, kindliness impart to the voice its 
most desirable qualities. 



Very few persons are aware that vocal 
exercises have a great effect when prop- 
erly performed in beautifying the actual 
form of the mouth. 

A gentleman well known as a vocal 
teacher in New York, in speaking of the 
mobility of the features, said : 

"It has been interesting to note the 
change in facial conformity and outline 
produced through pursuance of exercises 
specially directed to the muscles of the 
face as well as to the vocal organs." 

Vowel art is prolonged vowels of speech. 
It draws the angles of the lips open, back- 
ward, outward and upward. 

In "oo" the muscle between the nose 
and the lip carries it upward and forward ; 
the muscle below the lower lip carries it 
upward and forward, while the sphincter 
muscle draws the angles of the lips for- 
ward. 

The consistent exercise of these muscles 
will cause their development and give ex- 
pression to the face. Not only is the ex- 
ercise conducive to the development of fea- 
ture and added artistic beauty of expres- 
sion, but it perfects articulation and ex- 
pression of speech. In short, the sys- 
tematic exercise of these muscles is just 
as important as that of other muscles of 
the body if beauty of form and perfection 
of grace is desired. 

The more perfect the enunciation the 
more perfect the method, and vice versa. 

Satisfaction and pleasure in listening 
to singing is marred by not understanding 
the words and meaning of the singer. This 
is lack of clear enunciation and expres- 



sion. 



HOW TO FORM A TONE. 



Correctly to form a tone it is necessary 
for the lips to be mobile, facile, sure and 
developed. This can be accomplished by 
correct direction and intelligent practice. 

Thought is indicated more by the lips 
than by the eyes. The eyes may express 
truth, but if you watch the lips uttering 
the lie, you invariably notice an unnatural 
tension about them. 



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The attributes and propensities of our 
natures are in a measure indicated by the 
mouth. The thin, tense, undeveloped lips 
are often expressive of characteristics that 
are selfish, narrow, mean, revengeful and 
censorious. 

The full, flexible lips are apt to show 
the opposite — a nature the attributes of 
which are generous, just, honest and sym- 
pathetic. 



HOW TO WASH THE FACE. 

AKE a cake of good oily soap, five 
cents worth of powdered borax, one 
ounce of tincture of benzoin, a medium 
sized sponge and a small box of cold cream 
or a bottle of white vaseline. 

Dip the sponge in a basin of hot water 
and go over the face, not rubbing it, but 
holding the sponge close in order to get 
the skin hot. Do not irritate the flesh, but 
merely heat it. Do not wash it. 

When the skin is heated, take a table- 
spoon of powdered borax and throw it in- 
to the basin of water. The water will have 
a soft feeling, and, indeed, it is to soften 
it that the borax is used. With the 
sponge go over the face and neck carefully 
again until it is wet with the hot, soft 
water. It is well to place it on the stove 
and reheat the water from time to time. 

Now, throw away the water and pour 
into a fresh basin about two quarts of 
water and add one tablespoon of the tinc- 
ture of benzoin, or until the water looks 
milky. Apply to the face. Use the hands 
for this application, and when the face is 
thoroughly wet, lift it from the water and 
let dry. While drying hold the hands in 
the water for benzoin is a great whitener 
for the hands. 

Now, lift out the hands and let the ben- 
zoin and water mixture dry on them, and, 
while drying, hold the face in them to 
keep the skin warm. Do not let the face 
cool too suddenly, but keep it near the 
fire for a time, but do not hold the face 
right over the stove or it will make it 
tender. 



LOTION FOE CHAPPED HANDS. 

White of egg y 2 oz. 

Glycerine 2 oz. 

Tinct. witchhazel 4 oz. 

Carbolic acid 15 gr. 

Rose water, sufficient to make 8 oz. 

Mix: This is a thoroughly tested and 
excellent remedy. 

SULTANA CREAM. 

(For the Complexion.) 
Equal parts of lemon juice and white 
. of egg. Beat together and set over the 
fire in an earthen vessel ; stir with a wood- 
en spoon until the consistency of cream, 
when add a little oil of neroli or oil of 
jasmine to perfume. 

VIOLET CREAM. 

The following liquid wash will make 
the skin temporarily two shades whiter. It 
is entirely harmless: 

Pure oxide of zinc 4 dr. 

Glycerine 2 dr. 

Orange flower water 2 dr. 

Tincture of benzoin 10 drops. 

Essence of violets 15 drops. 

Sift the zinc through fine bolting cloth. 
Mix it with the glycerine. Add the orange 
flower water and last of all the benzoin 
and essence. Shake before using. Apply 
to the face with a small velvet sponge and 
wipe carefully off before the liquid is dry 
or it will look streaked. 

TO DESTROY SUPERFLUOUS HAIR ON THE 
FACE. 

Peroxide of hydrogen should be mixed 
with ammonia, half and half. Do not 
use water with the peroxide. Make the 
application every night. The combination 
first bleaches the hair and gradually soft- 
ens and destroys it when the process is 
successful. The trouble is that before this 
desirable result is reached the mixture is 
apt to irritate the skin, and the treatment 
has to be suspended for the time being, 



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a skin food used meanwhile when one can 
again resort to the peroxide. 

MILK OF BOSES. 

Place in a water bath one ounce of fine 
white melted vegetable oil soap; add six 
ounces of pure fresh rosewater; then add 
an ounce each of spermaceti and white 
wax and continue the heat until all are 
melted. 

Next take one pound of blanched al- 
monds, beat them to a paste in a clean 
marble mortar with three and one-half 
pints more rosewater gradually added 
during the operation. 

Strain this emulsion without pressure 
through double white cheese cloth and run 
very slowly into the previously formed 
soap mixture. Mix with energy. Toward 
the end of this part of the process add 
two drams of oil of roses dissolved in 
eight ounces of alcohol to be let into the 
mixture very gradually during constant 
manipulation. Let the whole stand a day 
and strain. Apply to the face night and 
morning. 

FOR ROUGH HANDS. 

Into a sauce pan put two ounces of 
sweet almond oil. 

Add two ounces of cocoa butter and 
two ounces of refined w T hite wax. 

Melt slowly and carefully. Take off 
the fire, pour into a porcelain jar and stir 
until cold. 

Take a pair of gloves two sizes too big 
for the hands, rip open at the back, spread 
with this mixture, put on the hands, and 
sew up at the back. 

In the morning wash the hands in bran 
and hot water. 

Wetting the skin with a lotion made of 
rosewater and benzoin after washing the 
face will help to reduce the size of the 
pores. But it will take some time to cure 
them. The rosewater and benzoin can be 
obtained from the druggists. 

TO REMOVE FRECKLES. 

Bichloride of mercury in coarse powder, 
10 grains, 



Extract of witchhazel, 2 ounces. 

Rosewater, 2 ounces. 

Dissolve the mercury in the rosewater 
and add the witchhazel. Mop over the 
face once or twice a day. Bichloride of 
mercury and corrosive sublimate are one 
and the same thing, and, of course, a dan- 
gerous poison. This is a physician's 
formula for freckles and stains, and it is 
perfectly proper to use, but the bottle con- 
taining this lotion should be labeled and 
kept out of the way of young and ignorant 
persons. 

SKIN SOFTENER AND WHITENER. 

Glycerin, two ounces. 

Boric acid, in powder, ninety grains. 

Distilled water, two and one-half ounces. 

Lanolin, one ounce. 

Paraffin, fourteen ounces. 

Oil of rose, six drops. 

Heat the first three ingredients in a 
hot water bath until a solution is obtained. 
Melt the paraffin and lanolin together and 
mix all by constant stirring, adding the oil 
of rose just before the mass concretes. Re- 
move in the morning with soap and w T arm 
water. 

Use lanolin powder during the day in 
place of face powder. 

LANOLIN POWDER. 

Lanolin, one ounce. 
Starch, 1 ounce. 
Talcum, 20 ounces. 
Coumarin, 24 grains. 
Oil of rose, 16 drops. 

The starch and talcum should be sifted 
several times through very fine silk bolting 
cloth, and added gradually to the lanolin 
and perfume. Lanolin imparts a peculiar 
smoothness to the powder, causes it to ad- 
here to the skin and keeps the cuticle from 
getting dry. 

TO REMOVE PIMPLES. 

Try a tablespoon of phosphate of soda 
in hot water before breakfast. Take this 
every other morning for two weeks. 

In washing the face use a teaspoonful 



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of powdered borax to a quart of water. 
Wet a soft cloth and hold it on the face 
hot, then "spat" the face with the hot 
water. Do not rub or irritate the pimply 
portion. 

At night rub a little white vaseline into 
the pimples, and, in the morning, wash 
off with the hot borax water. This is the 
simplest of all ways to treat pimples. If 
they are still obstinate there are other 
remedies. 

If this does not cure give up every kind 
of sweet. This does not mean only pastry, 
candy, and ice cream soda, but it includes 
fruits of all kinds, fresh or stewed. The 
rule is positive. Soups must be eschewed 
equally. Your physician must give you a 
tonic, including a mild laxative. Your 
diet outside of sweets and soups can be 
generous. This is the prescription of a 
famous physician who has treated thou- 
sands of complexions and always with suc- 
cess, and the wherefore is simple. A bad 
complexion comes from a form of dyspep- 
sia, which is caused by the irritating 
quality of sugar. Sugar is fermentative, 
consequently that is also forbidden. 

FOR OFFENSIVE BREATH. 

Bad breath is usually caused by decayed 
teeth, catarrh or a disordered stomach. It 
is obvious that until the cause is removed 
the best that can be done will be to use a 
temporary antiseptic wash. One should 
by all means ascertain the cause of the of- 
fensive breath and receive proper treat- 
ment. 

There is no human ailment so offensive 
as the odor of a diseased breath, whatever 
the cause, and many a delicate woman has 
first become disgusted with a man because 
she could not overcome the repulsion oc- 
casioned by an impure breath. 

The following mouth lotion will purify 
the breath for a short time : 

Salicylic acid, 3 drams. 

Oil of peppermint, 7 grains. 

Filtered water, 1 pint. 

Alcohol, 8 ounces. 

Orange flower water, 7 grains. 



Mix the oil of peppermint with about 
2 ounces of alcohol. Mix the remainder 
of the alcohol with water and warm, then 
dissolve the acid in the warm portion and 
add the perfumed water and the alcohol 
and peppermint. 

Wash the mouth thoroughly with the 
lotion whenever necessary. 




HOW TO MASSAGE THE BODY. 

ITII quick hands an attendant 
goes over the skin lightly with a 
soft towel, and then begins upon the rub- 
bing movement. The hand is filled with 
oil, sweet, olive, cocoa oil, or a mixture 
of melted wax and sweet oil, making a 
cold cream. Cold cream is good for this 
purpose, and nothing could be better than 
white vaseline. 

Kub the chest thoroughly, not using 
strength enough to reduce the fat, but rub- 
bing in the rotary manner, so that the 
cream is kneaded in, not with force, but 
gently. One will be surprised to find how 
much cream can be used working in this 
way. The heat of the hand keeps the 
cream soft and the skin, with its open 
pores, dries it readily. 

If the skin is oily, the grease can be re- 
moved with a soft cloth. A hot water 
bath can be taken later if desired, and 
there need be no fear that the oil will be 
drained from the skin. It has been ab- 
sorbed already by the tissues and soft 
parts of the flesh. 

Diet comes in for its share in the re- 
sponsibility. Unless one eats the right 
things, they will not make the right 
amount of progress. Everyone wants to 
be fattened, but they want to be fattened 
in the right place. 

Eating all one wants of one thing is a 
good way to get fat. Take some one vege- 
table, some one kind of fruit, some one 
kind of pudding, or "made dish," and of a 
sort if it be easily digested, it will "put 
fat" on the body. Some fear to get fat 
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wrong place; below the belt instead of 
above it, in the chin instead of into the 
bust ; on the cheeks and hips — everywhere 
except in the places desired. The dread of 
this keeps many a woman in a starving 
condition. But to such fears one may 
say begone. They are mere nightmares, 
not the realities. 

If one takes the proper exercises, the 
liftings, the stretchings, the bendings, and 
the curvings; if one walks and runs in 
the open air freely, the fat will dispose 
itself in the proper spots, just where 
nature intended it should. If one doubts 
this, go where living models are employed ; 
take a look at the wonderful figures of 
these women whose graces serve as a pat- 
tern for statuary; study the curves of the 
women of the stage; and see if it is im- 
possible to attain such. 

What woman has done, woman can do. 
Practice steadily for a month and see how 
quickly the figure will change. 

DRINK PLENTY OF WATER. 

It may be of interest to those who have 
been inquiring for a remedy for a burning 
sensation in the face after coming in out 
of the cold, for me to state that I have 
been greatly relieved from this trouble by 
the drinking of plenty of water. I used 
to drink very little water during the cold 
weather, but since having acted upon the 
good advice to drink plenty of good, pure 
water, whether cold or hot, have been 
greatly benefited in many ways. 

Everyone should drink freely of pure 
water each day. In many cases water in 
quantities is all the medicine one requires. 
Water passes into the system and carries 
off impurities as nothing else can. 



TO PRESERVE THE HAIR. 

HEKE is probably nothing sought 
for with more avidity than remedies 
I to preserve the "bloom of youth." Fresh- 
ness of youth may be prolonged by the 



judicious use of various preparations, 
harmless in their nature. 

The hair is considered as the woman's 
crown of loveliness, and is usually the first 
to show the "weight of years," if not prop- 
erly cared for. For thin, dry, lifeless hair 
the scalp should be rubbed three times 
daily with a quinine hair tonic. The fol- 
lowing formula is one that will soon bring 
life and vigor to meager, straggling 
locks: 

Sulphate of quinine 1 dr. 

Chloral hydrate y 2 dr. 

Oil of cajeput 1 dr. 

Oil of bay 1 dr. 

Spirits of camphor 1 oz. 

Alcohol 8 oz. 

How to mix: Kub the chloral hydrate 
up with the camphor ; dissolve the quinine 
in the alcohol; add the oils, and mix. 

Dandruff, one of the most disagreeable 
and tenacious afflictions of the scalp, may 
be cured by rubbing into the scalp night 
and morning the following: 

Caustic potash 8 gr. 

Phenic acid 24 gr. 

Lanolin y 2 z. 

Cocoanut oil *A oz. 

Mix. 

An excellent hair lotion used by a cele- 
brated French beauty is made from : 

Oil of Eosemary y dr. 

Oil of lavender y 2 dr. 

Cologne water 8 oz. 

Tinct. cantharides 1 oz. 

Mix, and apply once a day. 

A shampoo, which is exceedingly re- 
freshing and cleansing to the scalp, is : 

Bay rum 2y 2 pts. 

Water y p t. 

Glycerine l z. 

Tinct. of cantharides 2 dr. 

Carbonate of ammonia 2 dr. 

Powd. borax y 2 z. 

Mix, and shake well before using. 



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A delightful hair wash, and one that is 
very healthf ul ; is made as follows : 

Alcohol V 2 pt. 

Soft water y 2 pt. 

Sulphate of quinine 10 gr. 

Powd. borax y 2 oz. 

Mix, and rub well into the scalp twice 
a week. 

TO DARKEN THE COLOR OF THE HAIR. 

Green tea 2 oz. 

Garden sage 2 oz. 

Put in an iron pot and pour three 
quarts of boiling water over the herbs. Let 
simmer on the back of the stove until the 
quantity is reduced one-third. Take off 
the fire and leave in the pot for 24 hours. 
Strain. 

To apply, wet the hair with the lotion 
every night and massage the scalp until 
the hair is dry. It is said that this lotion 
is excellent for falling hair and will pro- 
duce a new growth. 

The hair should be entirely dry before 
going to bed, if the application is made 
at night, or the lotion will stain the pil- 
lows. 



POR STAINED TEETH. 

fF sure your teeth are in order, then 
brush them twice a week with the fin- 
est powdered pumice. Do not swallow 
the pumice, but go over the teeth, outside 
and in. Rinse the mouth well and brush 
the teeth with your regular dentifrice, 
whatever that may be. There are many 
good dentifrices. 

Common salt is good for the teeth, but 
it is a little severe. Do not use often. If 
it smarts the gums do not use it at all. 

Dentistry is a painful thing, as a rule, 
but it is one of the necessary ills of life, 
and one should not, on account of an hour's 
discomfort, neglect the teeth. ^Nothing 
gives back one's money and rewards one 
for the time as quickly as a trip to the 
dentist. 

An attractive mouth is something every 
woman, no matter how old or how homely, 
can possess, and to those who have studied 
the matter there is little excuse for an ill- 
shaped set of teeth. But preaching is 
easier than practice — so many a woman 
will tell you — and the day seems far off 
when teeth will be attended to promptly as 
they should be. 



DEPARTMENT OF ETIQUETTE. 

j* j»+ :* 



iNCE or twice in a lifetime we are 

permitted to enjoy the charm of 

noble manners, in the presence of a man or 

woman who have no bar in their nature, 

but whose character emanates freely in 

their word and gesture. A beautiful form 

is better than a beautiful face ; a beautiful 

behavior is better than a beautiful form ; 

it gives a higher pleasure than statues or 

pictures ; it is the finest of the fine arts." 
-x- # * ^ # -x- 

"The flowering of civilization is in the 
finished man, the man of sense, of grace, 



of accomplishment, of social power, — the 

gentleman." 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson on "Manners/' 

INTRODUCTIONS. 

In introductions the simplest method is 
always the best. "Let me make you ac- 
quainted withy is an awkward and now 
obsolete phrase. In introducing men to 
women, the woman's name is always men- 
tioned first, and the gentleman presented 
to the lady, as — Mrs. Gray, let me present 
Mr. Earl. Very frequently, where a man 



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introduces one of his own sex to a woman, 
lie uses the following form, as being some- 
what more complimentary: Mrs. Gray, 
Mr. Earl desires to be presented to you. 
When asking permission of a lady to in- 
troduce a masculine stranger to her, it is 
only necessary to say, Miss Miller, may I 
present my friend, Mr. Rogers? He is 
very eager to know you; I trust you have 
710 objections. 

In making a stranger known to a group 
of guests, a host or hostess, if the new- 
comer is a woman, would usually say, 
Mrs. Gray, let me present Mrs. Brown, 
Miss Brown, Miss Daisy Brown, Judge 
Thompson and Doctor Lane. 

When there is a marked difference in 
the ages of two women, the younger is al- 
ways introduced to the elder — Mrs. Scott, 
let me present Mrs. Mead. An unmar- 
ried woman is invariably presented to a 
matron, unless the spinster is very evi- 
dently much the older person. Two matrons 
between whose ages it would be invidious 
to draw a distinction may be formally in- 
troduced by a mode that holds the balance 
of deference due them quite even — Mrs. 
Chase, this is Mrs. Long; Mrs. Long, Mrs. 
Chase. 

In making men known to one another, 
the distinctions are not so finely drawn. 
A young man or a bachelor would nat- 
urally be presented to a white-haired and 
venerable gentleman, and a simple citizen 
to a senator, governor or judge. When age 
and dignities and titles play no part, it is 
sufficient to say Mr. Raymond, Mr. Hope. 

In introducing one's relatives less for- 
mality is observed than in other cases, 
thus: Mrs. Wilson, I want my sister to 
know you. Father, this is Mr. Hope; Miss 
Wh ite, I don't think my father has had the 
pleasure of meeting you; Mother, this is 
Mr. Simpson, etc. 

ACKNOWLEDGING AN INTRODUCTION. 

A woman in her own house invariably 
extends her hand, when any one is pre- 
sented to her, saying at the same time, in 
a very cordial tone, Mr. (or Mrs.) Gray, 



I am very glad to meet you, ov, 11 ow do 
you do, Miss Brown? It is a great pleas- 
ure to know you. In other cases it is usu- 
ally sufficient for a woman to bow politely 
and repeat the name of the person pre- 
sented. A young lady, unless she is play- 
ing the part of hostess, does not express in 
words any marked gratification when a gen- 
tleman is presented to her ; but a man, of 
any age, on being presented to a lady, is 
required to signify his pleasure by an ami- 
able phrase, such as, I am very happy to 
meet you, Miss Gray. 

She who offers her hand upon accepting 
an introduction conveys thereby a sign of 
cordial welcome of the acquaintance, but 
in formally fashionable society none but 
hostesses pursue this course. The studied 
inclination of the head, a very fleeting 
smile, and a murmur of the name, consti- 
tutes full recognition of an introduction. 

A hostess invariably rises to accept an 
introduction to either man or woman. A 
woman, while a guest at a ball, dinner or 
afternoon tea, does not rise when a man is 
presented to her; nor when she is one of 
a group to which a woman is introduced, 
unless it is one who is much older than 
herself, or a person of distinction, or un- 
less she is seated beside the hostess, who, 
naturally, rises to greet a newcomer. In 
all other circumstances, a woman rises to 
receive an introduction to one of her own 
sex. 

A man always stands when any intro- 
duction takes place in which he has a part, 
whether the person to whom he is made 
known is man or woman, old or young. 

Particular attention should be given 
when a stranger is presented, in order to 
catch the name ; but on failing to do this, a 
woman introduced to a person older than 
herself, may ask, Will you not tell me 
whom I have the pleasure of meeting, for 
I was not clever enough to catch your 
name ? 

When the name of a guest escapes a host 
or hostess, it is quite proper to say quietly, 
Forgive me, but I can not recall your name 
at this moment; and then, having received 



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the required information, to proceed with 
the introduction. 

INTRODUCTIONS IN PUBLIC. 

Introductions in public are made only 
as a matter of convenience, and rarely 
merit subsequent recognition. Should 
two women meet in the street, at the church 
door, or in a shop, or theater lobby, and 
one of them be accompanied by a friend 
who is a stranger to the other, an introduc- 
tion would not be timely or necessary, if 
only a momentary halt and exchange of 
civilities were made. But should a pro- 
longed conversation ensue, the strangers 
must then be formally introduced. 

On golf links or tennis courts, or in 
similar public or semi-public places, where 
people are brought temporarily into an in- 
timate group, for play or some similar 
purpose, the person of most authority and 
acquaintance with the others will wisely 
make the rapid and rather perfunctory in- 
troduction that consists in a mere mention 
of the names of the persons present. This 
is nothing more than a temporary expedi- 
ent to relieve the occasion of any difficulty 
or formality. 

LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION. 

Letters of introduction usually are in 
the form of brief notes, or consist of a 
word or two written on a visiting card 
alone. A note of introduction does not 
gracefully cover more than a page and a 
half of medium-sized note paper, and 
should be confined strictly to the one office 
of naming and presenting the person in 
whose behalf it is written. 

MODELS FOR NOTES OF INTRODUCTION. 

A Lady Introduces Her Friend, 

Cincinnati, Ohio, 
June 6th, 1901. 
My Dear Mrs. Marshall: 

It gives me greatest pleasure to intro- 
duce to you my friend, Miss Yondorf, of 
Cleveland, who will be stopping for a few 
weeks with my aunt, Mrs. Jamison, in 
your city. I feel that I am conferring a 



benefit on both of you, in making you 
known to one another, and any kindness 
you. may show these ladies will be as 
greatly appreciated by me as by them. 
With kindest regards, I am, 
Most sincerely yours, 

Margaret Tracy. 

Chicago, 111., 
July 3d, 1901. 
Dear Webster: 

This will be presented by my friend, 
Earnest Clifford, in whose behalf I speak 
some of the invaluable advice and assist- 
ance that I so appreciated and profited by 
on my first trip to Paris. Clifford hopes 
to do a little business, but more sight-see- 
ing, in your famous city, and any civilities 
you may be able to show him will not, I 
assure you, fall on stony ground. 
Faithfully yours, 
Hermann G. Hartmann. 

Introducing a Sister to a Schoolmate. 

Philadelphia, Pa., 
June 16th, 1901. 
Dear Minnie : 

This note will serve to introduce my 
sister Zoe, of whom you have so often 
heard me speak. I trust you will learn 
to love her dearly, for the sake of your old 
schoolmate, and loving friend, 

Edyth Dalrymple. 
Miss Minnie Parsons. 

Introducing Gentleman to Lady Friend. 

Zanesville, Ohio. 
Jan. 3rd, 1901. 
My Dear Miss Morgan: 

My friend, Mr. Royce Dixon, by whom 
this letter will be presented, is about to 
adopt your beautiful little city as his 
home, for the benefit of its climatic pow- 
ers. Knowing your hospitality, may I 
hope it may be extended to him ? 
Your very sincere friend, 

Richard Randolph. 

A note of introduction must be placed in 
an envelope bearing the address of the per- 



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381 



son to whom the introduction is made, but 
left unsealed. 

HOW TO PKESENT A NOTE OF INTRODUC- 
TION. 

It is rather difficult to present in per- 
son a note of introduction, though men 
usually prefer to do so. A woman, how- 
ever, usually sends the letter by mail, and 
awaits a call from the person addressed. 

A CARD OF INTRODUCTION. 

A card of introduction is merely the 
giver's visiting card with the name of the 
person whom it is to introduce written 
above the engraved name of the giver of 
the card — thus: 



Introducing Miss Grace Goldsmith 

Mrs. John Kyle Dallis 



32 Ogden Ave 



The card should be placed in a card en- 
velope, left unsealed, and addressed to the 
person to whom the introduction is to be 
made; in the lower left-hand corner of 
the envelope, should be inscribed, Intro- 
ducing Miss Grace Goldsmith. 

CARDS AND THEIR USES IN SOCIETY. 
VISITING CARDS FOR WOMEN. 

The size of visiting cards varies but 
slightly from season to season. As a rule, 
the cards used by a married woman are 
somewhat larger than those adopted by un- 
married women. The material and qual- 
ity of the card should be the very best. 
Pure white bristol board of medium 
weight, with the surface polished, not 
glazed, and with the name engraved there- 
on in black ink, are the distinguishing 
features of the cards used in good society. 
Block, script and old English lettering are 
all fashionable types for the engraving. 



PROPER TITLES. 

Beveled or gilded edges, crests, or any 
decoration and engraving beyond the 
name, address and day at home, do not 
evince taste or a knowledge of the nicest 
social customs. A lady's card in America 
never bears any other title than Mrs. or 
Miss; to dispense with these simple ti- 
tles is to commit a solecism. 



Mrs. Paul Lyall Dalton 



148 Chestnut Street 



Miss Ruth Dalton 



148 Chestnut Street 



A woman is not privileged to share on 
her card the dignities conferred on her 
husband ; the wife of the president is sim- 
ply Mrs. William McKinley; and so on, 
with each titled personage from president 
to doctor. A woman, whether married or 
single, who has herself received the title 
of doctor, should not affix it to her name 
on any but her business cards. A woman 
who practices medicine should use two 
kinds of cards. One should bear her name, 
thus, Dr. Mary Burton Shields, or Mary 
Burton Shields, M. D., with her address 
in one corner and her office hours in an- 
other. This would be for professional use 
only. Another — for social use — should 
bear her name thus: Miss Mary Burton 
Shields, or Mrs. James Kent Shields, with 
her home address in the corner. 

Cards of the most approved type give 
the full Christian name or names, if there 



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is more than one, as well as surname. It 
is rather more modish, for example, to 
have the inscription read, Mrs. James 
Kent Shields, than Mrs. James K. Shields; 
Miss Mary Burton Shields, than Miss 
Mary B. Shields. 

The senior matron of the oldest branch 
of a family may, if she chooses, drop her 
husband's Christian name from her cards, 
and let her card read simply, for example, 
Mrs. West fall; her eldest unmarried 
daughter is entitled to omit her Chris- 
tian name, and use a card reading, Miss 
Westfall 

widow's card. 

A widow is privileged either to retain 
her husband's Christian name on her 
cards, or to substitute for it her own ; as, 
for example, the widow of Ernest Gilmore 
Heath may have her cards read either 
Mrs. Ernest Gilmore Heath, or Mrs, Mary 
Catherine Heath. But it is rather the 
fashion at present for a widow or woman 
who has been divorced to use her maiden 
surname with the surname of the deceased 
or divorced husband; as, for example, 
Mrs. Randolph Heath, Mrs. Heath's 
maiden name having been Randolph. 

DIVORCED WOMAN'S CARD. 

A woman who is divorced erases at once 
from her card the Christian name of the 
man who was her husband. If she retains 
the use of his surname, she joins with it 
either her own Christian or her own sur- 
name, as she prefers. When after a legal 
annulment of her marriage a woman re- 
sumes her full maiden name, she prefixes 
to it on her cards the title Mrs. not Miss. 

USE OF JUNIOR AND SENIOR. 

Junior, or the contraction Jr., is some- 
times added to the name on the card of a 
lady whose husband bears the same name 
as his father, in order to give a distin- 
guishing mark between the cards of moth- 
er-in-law and daughter-in-law. If the 
mother-in-law, in such an instance, should 
lose her husband, and at the same time 
wish to retain his baptismal names upon 



her card, she must then add the explana- 
tory abbreviation Sr., while her daughter- 
in-law erases the Jr. from hers. Should 
both ladies lose their husbands, and both 
wish to retain on their cards the husband's 
Christian names, the younger must add 
Jr. on her cards. 

YOUNG LADY'S CARD. 

During her first season in society a 
young lady does not, if her mother has in- 
troduced her and is her chaperon and com- 
panion, use a card of her own. Her name 
is coupled on a large card with and below 
that of her mother, thus : 



Mrs. Henry Whittmore 
Miss Blanche Rae Whittmore 



Thursdays 



North Robey Street 



After her first season a young lady uses, 
when calling alone, her own card ; but she 
does not indicate on it any day at home 
if her mother is an active hostess who 
issues her own cards every season and re- 
ceives with her daughters. 

VISITING CARDS FOR MEN. 

A gentleman's card is both thinner and 
smaller than a lady's, but it should be 
equally chaste and fine in its quality and 
engraving. The approved size and style 
of inscription is as follows: 



Mr. Albert Keith Negley 



Belle Platne Ave 



The title Mr. is never dispensed with 
unless the name is followed by Jr. If the 
full name is too long to be engraved on 
the card, merely the initial of the middle 



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583 



name may be used; but the first name 
should always be used in full. 

The eldest male member of the oldest 
branch of a family may omit the Chris- 
tian name on his card and use simply the 
family name with Mr., as, Mr. Negley. 

TITLES ON MEN'S CARDS. 

It is hardly possible to be too conserva- 
tive in the use of titles on visiting cards. 
The President and the Vice-President of 
the United States, Ambassadors, Justices 
of the higher courts, officers in the army 
and navy, physicians and clergymen, all 
signify their office, rank or professions by 
the approved titles. Presidents of col- 
leges, professors, lawyers, officers of mili- 
tia, judges of lower courts, officers of the 
Xaval Reserve, senators, representatives, 
and ministers and consuls at foreign 
courts and ports should remain satisfied 
with the simple Mr. on all cards used for 
social purposes. 

It is an unwritten law of etiquette in 
the army that no officer of lower rank than 
captain shall preface his name with other 
title than that of Mr. The proper inscrip- 
tion for a lieutenant's card would be Mr. 
Frank Todd Thompson, with the words 
Lieutenant of Infantry, U. S. Army, in 
the right-hand corner. But it is in just 
as good taste if only the words United 
States Army appear in the corner of the 
card. An officer of any rank above a lieu- 
tenant places his military title on his card, 
and signifies in the corner of the card the 
branch of the service to which he belongs. 

CARDS USED IN SOCIAL FUNCTIONS. INVI- 
TATIONS FOR A DINNER PARTY. 



Mr. 


AND 


Mrs. James 


Black 


REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF 
COMPANY AT DINNER 


YOUR 


On 




Evening. 






AT 


SEVEN O'CLOCK 




R. S. V. P. 




329 Broadway 



Mr. and Mrs. Black 

RKQCFST TIIK PLEASURE OF 

Mil. and MRS. BROWN'S 

COMPANY AT DINNER 

TO MEET JUSTICE FULLER 

Thursday, September 20th, at 8 o'clock 

418 Prairie Avenue 



FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCHEON OE SUPPER. 



Mrs. John Hancock 

BREAKFAST. THURSDAY AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK 

483 Cuvler Ave 



MUSICALE SOIREE OR MATINEE. 



Mrs 


. James Ogden 


Burnett 






AT HOME 






Friday 


September 


Tenth 


MTSIC AT 


l'KKK.i: 







Mrs. Theodore M. Welsh 

at HOME 

Friday, May Third, from 
Three to Five O'clock 

matinee musicale 



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THE ART OF ATTAINMENT. 



A FULL-DRESS RECEPTION. 



MRS. JAMES OTIS BRADLEY 



REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OP TOUR COMPANY 



On Thursday, November Twelfth 



FROM THREE UNTIL EIGHT O'CLOCK 



18 Prairie Avenue 



MR. 


AND 


MRS. 


JOHN DWIGHT THOMPSON 

at home 




FRIDAY 


AFTERNOON, MAY TENTH 






FROM FOUR UNTIL SEVEN O'CLOCK 








EIGHTEEN OGDEN AVENUE 



MRS. JOHN DWIGHT THOMPSON 



The Misses Thompson 



FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY TENTH 



TKOM TOUR UNTIL SEVEN O'CLOCK 



EIGHTEEN OGDEN AVENUE 



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385 



INVITATIONS FOR EVENING PARTIES. 



MRS. REGINALD D'AYRE 



REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OF THE COMPANY OF 



MR. and MRS. JOHN HOPKINS 



On Thursday Evening November first 



INFORMAL 



AT EIGHT O'CLOCK 



MRS. MATTHEW ARNOLD 

AT HOME 

Thursday Evening, November 8th 

at nine o'clock 
355 Evergreen Avenue 



QUADRILLES AT ELEVEN 



MR. 


and MRS. MORTIMER ROBINSON 

i 




REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY 




Friday Evening, June Sixth 




AT NINE O'CLOCK 


KINSLEY'S 





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THE ART OF ATTAINMENT. 
INVITATIONS TO A WEDDING. 



ME. and MRS. JAMES G. BAXTER 

REQUEST THE HONOR OF YOUR PRESENCE AT THE 
MARRIAGE OF THEIR DAUGHTER 

MARGARET 

TO 

MR. JOHN KENT FENTON 

On Tuesday Afternoon, November the Third 
at fi^e o'clock 

Church of the Holy Name 

CHICAGO 



FORM NO. II. 



MR. and MRS. GEORGE ANDREWS 

REQUEST THE HONOR OF 

MISS ALLENE MAUD WINSLOW'S 

PRESENCE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THEIR DAUGHTER 

ALTA PEARL 

AND 

MR. BYRON MATTHEWS 

On Thursday, August the Eighth 
at three o'clock 

Grace Church 
cincinnati 



THE ART OF ATTAINMENT. 
FOR A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. 



38? 



1876 


1901 


SILVER WEDDING 




MR. and MRS. THOMAS BROOKS 




AT HOME 




Tuesday Evening, May Third 




AT EIGHT O'CLOCK 




193 Belmont Ave 





INVITATION TO A GAKDEN PARTY. 



Mr. and Mrs. James Brown and Party 



MRS. JEROME K. JEROME 



AT HOME 



Tuesday, September Tenth, at 5 o'clock 



"STAPLEHURST" 



Garden Party 



CARRIAGES WILL MEET THE 3:20 TRAIN 
UNION STATION 



R. S. V. P. 



388 THE ART OF ATTAINMENT. 

INTRODUCING A DAUGHTER INTO SOCIETY. 



MES. LYMAN PRENTISS 

REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OF INTRODUCING 
HER DAUGHTER 

PEISCILLA MAEIE 

TO 

ME. and MES. JACKSON KEMBLE 

On Tuesday Evening, May First 
at nine o'clock 



2014 Lake Shore Drive 



r. s. v. P. 



INVITATION TO A CHRISTENING. 



ME. and MES. BERTRAM GOLDSMITH 

request the pleasure of your company 
at the christening of their son 

On Tuesday, June Fifth 
at five o'clock 



25 Oak Street 



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389 



A BACHELOR RECEPTION. 



Mr. 


Theodore Martin Purscell 




REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OP 


Mr. 


and Mrs. Isaac Montague's 




company 


Tuesday Afternoon March Tenth 




FROM FIVE TO EIGHT O'CLOCK 




The Plaza Building 


Music 


38 Fifth Avenue 



some phrases used in society. 

Bal Masque — A masquerade ball. 

Chaperon — An older woman attending 
a young girl in society. 

Costume de Rigueur — Full-dress cos- 
tume. 

Debut — First appearance. 

Debutante — A young girl making her 
first social appearance. 

En Ville (E. V.)— In town or city. 

Fete Champetre — A rural or out-door 
entertainment. 

Matinee — A morning or daylight enter- 
tainment. 

Matinee Musicale — A daylight musical 
entertainment. 

Musicale — A musical entertainment. 

Protege — One under protection. 

Respondez s'il vous plait (R. S. V. P.) 
— Reply, if you please. 

Soiree — An evening party. 

Soiree Dansante — A dancing party. 

Soiree Musicale — A musical entertain- 
ment. 



CALLS. 

WHEN TO PAY CALLS. 

Formal calls, in the city and during the 
season of winter gaiety, are paid between 
three and half-past five o'clock in the aft- 
ernoon. Calls of ceremony are never ex- 



changed between women in the morning, 
in the evening, or on Sunday afternoon 
unless business is to be transacted or an 
interview has been arranged by special ap- 
pointment. 

The day at home is a purely social occa- 
sion, and calls are paid then, if possible. 
It is always more considerate and compli- 
mentary to observe a friend's day at home, 
if she has issued cards appointing one, 
than to pay her chance calls on other days. 
Such are the rules for fashionable society 
in large cities. In towns, at watering 
places and in country neighborhoods, 
morning and evening calls and calls after 
church or in the afternoon on Sunday are 
frequently the local custom. In these 
places a call lasts much longer than in the 
busy city. 

WHEN MEN CALL. 

The American man, because of the ex- 
actions of his business, is allowed to utilize 
the evenings and Sunday afternoons for 
paying his social calls. In fashionable so- 
ciety in the large cities a gentleman may 
present himself at a lady's door after half- 
past eight or even as late as nine o'clock in 
the evening. In society which keeps 
earlier hours a caller may arrive at from 
seven-thirty to eight o'clock. Sunday aft- 
ernoon calls begin at eight o'clock. The 
specification, however, of these times and 
seasons does not preclude a man from pay- 
ing calls on a lady's day "at home." In 
the country men are privileged to call in 
the morning. 

WHO PAYS THE FIRST CALL. 

Brides and strangers newly arrived in a 
neighborhood never make, but wait to re- 
ceive, the first call. Women who have been 
invited to visit, or during the summer sea- 
son have been entertained in a friend's 
house in the country, must be among the 
first, directly their hostess returns to town, 
to call upon her. When there exists no 
previous indebtedness on either side, and 
after a summer's holiday two women ar- 
rive in their houses on very nearly the 
same date, the younger usually calls upon 



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THE ART OF ATTAINMENT. 



the elder first. Where the differences in 
their ages is very slight, the one who re- 
turns to town first makes the initial call 
or the unmarried calls first on the mar- 
ried woman. 

An unmarried woman would call first 
on a matron, or a younger woman pays 
this compliment to one decidedly older 
than herself, whether both are matrons or 
single ; otherwise the matter is decided by 
opportunity or inclination. 

HOW TO PAT A CALL. 

A woman does not remove her veil, 
gloves or lighter wrap when calling. In 
the event of bad weather the umbrella, 
overshoes and storm coat are to be left in 
the hall. A man never wears his overcoat 
into a lady's drawing room; it is left in 
the hall ; but at present it is a rare thing 
for a man to carry his cane or hat into a 
drawing room. 

On the ceremonious day at home wom- 
en callers do not kiss in greeting; nor do 
they remove their gloves when taking tea. 

A man calling in company with ladies, 
even if they are his near relatives, waits 
for them to give the signal of departure. 
When the woman rises, signifying her 
readiness to leave, he must also rise at 
once, with an apology to any one with 
whom he is conversing at the moment. He 
makes his farewells to the hostess after 
his companion has made hers, and follows 
her from the room. 



TABLE MANNERS. 

dont's for diners. 
Don't — 

Put your elbows on the table. 

Trifle with knives or forks. 

Clink the glasses together. 

Tuck the napkin in your waistcoat or 
collar. 

Fold the napkin at conclusion of a meal. 

Convey food to the mouth with the 
knife. 

Mash food with the fork. 



Hold knife and fork in the air while 
the plate is being replenished. 

Place soiled knife or fork on table 
linen. 

Allow spoon to stand in cup while 
drinking from it. 

Blow on soup to reduce its temperature. 

Drink from the end of a spoon. 

Masticate the food noisily. 

Converse with the mouth full. 

Hold food in air while conversing. 

Bite mouthfuls of bread from a slice. 

Precede the ladies to the table. 

Use a toothpick at the table. 

DINNERS. 

A fortnight is the usual notice given in 
sending out dinner invitations, although 
some persons extend it to three weeks, but 
this is only done when great ceremony is 
to be observed, or when engraved cards of 
invitation are issued. The reason for giv- 
ing a long notice is obvious; it enables a- 
hostess to secure the guests she mostwishes 
to entertain, and makes it easier for her 
to send out additional invitations when 
any of her cards are declined. 

A hostess may exercise her preference 
between writing her invitations on note 
sheets with her own hand and sending out 
especially engraved cards. But whichever 
course she pursues, the terms in which she 
bids her friends to a formal dining are 
invariably the same. The card on which 
a dinner invitation is engraved is, as a 
rule, large, of pure white, rather heavy 
bristol board, and the engraving is done in 
script, old English or block type. At 
proper intervals spaces are left for the in- 
sertion of the name of the prospective 
guest, the day, the hour and date, thus : 

Mr. and Mrs. Trumbull White 
request the pleasure of 



company at dinner 

on evening 

at .... o'clock. 

89 Walnut Street 



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391 



Should the dinner be given in honor of 
a special guest, the hostess may write To 
meet Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, at the bot- 
tom of every engraved card or order her 
stationer to prepare small cards to accom- 
pany each invitation she issues, the cards 
to be engraved thus : 



TO MEET 

Mr. and Mrs. Wallace 
op san francisco 



INVITATIONS TO LESS CEREMONIOUS DIN- 
NERS. 

For small dinners for not more than ten 
people, most of whom are already ac- 
quainted with each other, the invitations 
are more appropriately issued in the form 
of brief friendly notes, as follows, and ad- 
dressed to the wife when a married couple 
is invited: 

821 Langley Ave., March 6th, 19—. 
My Dear Mrs. Alexander: 

Will you and Mr. Alexander give us the 
pleasure of your company at dinner on 
Monday, the twelfth, at six o'clock ? 
Sincerely yours, 

Janet Adams. 

34 Temple Place, Aug. 19—. 
Dear Mr. Templeton: 

We would be very pleased to have you 
dine with us on Tuesday next, the tenth, 
at seven o'clock, if disengaged. 
Cordially yours, 

Sylvia Gwynn. 

820 Sycamore St., Jan. 12th, 19—. 
Dear Mrs. Templeton: 

It would give us great pleasure to have 
you and Mr. Templeton dine, informally, 
with us on Wednesday, the eighth, at six 
o'clock, to meet Mr. and Mrs. Bertram 
Venard of Chicago, and afterward go with 



us to attend the Messiah. Trusting that 
there is no previous engagement to prevent; 
our enjoyment of your company, I am, 
Most cordially yours, 
Rebecca Allene Dinsmore. 

answering a dinner invitation. 

A prompt and decisive reply, written 
within twenty-four hours, is the rule fol- 
lowed by well-bred and considerate per- 
sonages. It is a gross incivility, or an 
indication of very defective social educa- 
tion, to permit a dinner card to lie two or 
three days awaiting its answer. The an- 
swer to an invitation expressed in the 
third person is invariably written as fol- 
lows: 

183 Wells St., 
March 28th, 19— 
Mr. and Mrs. James Whitmore 

accept with pleasure 
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Jerrold's 

invitation to dinner on 

Thursday evening, April third, 

at six o'clock. 

or 

Mr. and Mrs. James Whitmore 
regret that illness in their family 

prevents their acceptance of 
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Jerrold's 

kind invitation to dinner on 

Thursday evening, April third, 

at six o'clock. 

183 Wells St., 
March 28th, 19—. 

A dinner invitation in the form of a 
note must be answered by note, in which 
it is the sensible custom to repeat the dates 
given in the hostess' missive, thus : 

189 Walnut Street, 
Jan. 27th, 19—. 
My Dear Mrs. Goldsmith: 

It gives me great pleasure to accept 
your kind invitation to dinner on Tues- 
day, the twelfth, at seven o'clock. 
Sincerely yours, 

Sarah Winters. 



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THE ART OF ATTAINMENT. 



"Windmere." 
Aug. 8th, 19—. 
Dear Mrs. Ayling: 

I will be pleased to dine with you on 
Friday, the 18th, at six o'clock. 
Faithfully yours, 

Walter Darnell. 
183 Princeton Ave., 

Jan. 23, 19 — . 
My Dear Mrs. Matthews: 

Mr. Reynolds and I are extremely sorry 
that we are not able to accept your invita- 
tion for the 30th inst. We are pledged for 
a dinner and the opera on that date, and 
lament exceedingly our inability to accept. 
Mr. Reynolds joins me in kind regards 
and regrets. 

Believe me, sincerely yours, 

Elizabeth Reynolds. 

a successful dinner party. 

In giving a dinner care and judgment 
should be exercised in choosing and then 
in arranging the guests so that all may be 
comfortable. Not too many should be bid- 
den, and usually an even number, as many 
gentlemen as ladies. It is well to invite 
the young as well as the more advanced in 
years, thus insuring a diversity of conver- 
sational topics. 

It is best that guests should be disposed 
in accordance with natural laws; persons 
of like minds and tastes should be seated 
together. 

the table. 

Those who gave dinners should under- 
stand the proper arrangement of the table, 
or employ some person who does have 
such knowledge. The table is first cov- 
ered with heavy felting or double canton 
flannel. Over this is laid the heavy dam- 
ask cloth. A handsome dinner cloth falls 
in full, long drapery about a table, its four 
corners almost touching the floor. The 
central crease of the cloth runs the length 
of the table, dividing it exactly in half. 
At the middle point in this line the large 



center doily finds its proper place. A 
square or circular piece of fine linen, lace 
or drawn work is used. On this is ar- 
ranged the flowers, which form the table 
decoration. Most hostesses use candles 
the same shade as the flowers used in the 
decoration. 

When the flowers have been artistically 
arranged the candlesticks or lamps are dis- 
posed about it. Four single sticks should 
form a guard of honor around the flowers, 
standing at exactly equal distances from 
each other and from the flowers. Four 
candles will thoroughly illuminate a table 
laid for six or eight. 

If candelabra are used they are set at 
equal distances above and below the center- 
piece. Decanters, salt cellars, pepper 
boxes, compotiers of bonbons and platters 
of salted nuts are then located. 

The plate should b© so placed that if it 
is decorated the fruit or flowers of the dec- 
oration will be in a natural position to the 
eye of the person seated before it. On 
the plate is placed a large white dinner 
napkin, folded and ironed square, with 
a dinner roll or square of bread laid be- 
tween the folds. To the left of the plate 
three silver forks are laid close together, 
the points of the prongs turned up. To 
the right of the plate lie two large silver- 
handled, steel-bladed knives, and one 
small silver knife, their sharp edges 
turned toward the plate. Beside the silver 
knife is laid a soup spoon, with its bowl 
turned up, and next to the soup spoon lies 
the oyster fork. 

Nearly touching the tips of the knife 
blades stand the glasses — one a goblet, or 
tumbler, for water; and additional ones 
for wines, if they are served. 

On top of the napkin lies a small gilt- 
edged card, bearing across its length, in 
the hostess' handwriting, the name of the 
guest for whom the seat is intended. 

SERVING. 

In serving the dinner care must be ex- 
ercised to avoid accidents, although guests 
must make allowances for these, and if 



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they should happen no one should lose his 
self-control or get out of humor. Servants 
should move about noiselessly and with 
celerity, though never hurriedly, and 
guests must not be robbed of their plates 
when in the act of eating. 

Plates for hot courses must be warmed. 
A well-trained servant presents the dishes 
at the left hand of every guest in turn, be- 
ginning the first course with the lady at 
the right of the host, and then passing in 
regular order from gentleman to lady as 
they are seated. 

At a ceremonious dinner the host does 
not carve any of the meats, none of the 
dishes are set upon the table and the host- 
ess does not help her guests to anything. 
For a ceremonious dinner the menu should 
appear something like the following: 

Oysters on the Half Shell. 

Soup. 

Fish. Potatoes. Cucumbers. 

Mushrooms or Sweetbreads. 

Roast Lamb with Spinach. Tomato Sauce. 

Canvas Back Duck. Celery. 

Creamed Peas on Toast. 

Lettuce Salad. Cheese Straws. 

Pineapple Ice. Charlotte Russe. 

Ices. Fruits. Coffee. 

SIMPLE DINNERS. 

A white cloth and center-piece of flow T - 
ers, a large dinner lamp, two or four crys- 
tal dishes containing bonbons, olives, 
salted nuts and celery, are proper furnish- 
ings for a simple dinner party. If the 
dinner begins with soup, the "hostess should 
find, when the company enter, the filled 
and covered tureen and a pile of warm 
soup plates at her place. As soon as the 
guests are seated the maid removes the 
tureen cover and passes the plates of soup 
as her mistress ladles out the liquid, the 



first plate of soup being passed to the lady 
on the right of the host. 

The fish and fish plates are set before 
the host, who serves them; after the fish 
is served the waitress passes on her tray 
a dish of potatoes. 

At such a dinner the master carves the 
meat, and the maid passes the vegetables 
with the meat. 

The relishes are passed by the hostess. 
The maid serves the desserts. The coffee 
is placed on a tray before the hostess, who 
pours the liquid and sweetens it to every 
one's taste. 

ORDER OF PRECEDENCE. 

When dinner is announced the host rises 
at once, offering his right arm to the lady 
who is to sit at his right. If a dinner is 
given in honor of a married couple, the 
host leads the way to the table with his 
guest's wife, the hostess bringing up the 
rear with the lady's husband. If there is 
no particularly distinguished person in 
the party the host takes in the eldest lady, 
or the one who has been invited to the 
house for the first time. Relatives, or hus- 
bands and wives, are never sent in to- 
gether. There should, if possible, be an 
equal number of men and women guests. 
If, however, there be six ladies and five 
gentlemen, the hostess should bring up the 
rear, walking alone. 

There need be no confusion in the seat- 
ing. The persons who go into the dining 
room together sit side by side, and can 
move quietly around the table until they 
discover their places by the names on the 
cards lying at their respective covers. The 
host waits a moment until the ladies are 
seated, then the dinner proceeds. 

LUNCHEONS AND BREAKFASTS. 

For a formal and elaborate luncheon or 
breakfast the invitations are fittingly is- 
sued ten days in advance of the date of the 
entertainment, and are engraved on large 
square white cards, with the name of the 
person invited and the day and hour writ- 
ten in by the hostess' own hand, thus : 



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Mrs 


Paul Laurence Blake 

Requests the Pleasure of 






Company at Luncheon 


















38 Broadway 



Under ordinary conditions it would be 
quite enough for the hostess to write be- 
neath the engraved name on her ordinary 
calling card: 

Luncheon at 2 o'clock, 
February second. 

OR 

Breakfast at 11 o'clock, 
March fifteenth. 

Yet another approved course is the writ- 
ing of brief notes of invitation. All invi- 
tations should be sent from five to seven 
days in advance of the chosen date. The 
following are good forms of invitation by 
note : 

83 Drummond Court, 
March 10th, 19—. 
Dear Mrs. Raymond: 

I shall be pleased to have yon lunch 
with me on Wednesday next, the twen- 
tieth, at half -past one o'clock, to meet my 
friend, Miss Hudson, of Galveston, Texas. 
Trusting there is no prior engagement 
to prevent your coming, I am, 

Sincerely yours, 
Frederica Whiteman. 

OR 

83 Drummond Court, 
March 10th, 19—. 
My Dear Mrs. Raymond: 

Will you pardon the short notice and 



give us the pleasure of your company at 
breakfast at eleven o'clock on Wednesday, 
the twentieth ? 

Very sincerely yours, 

Erederica Whiteman. 

answering luncheon and breakfast 
invitations. 

Luncheon and breakfast invitations re- 
quire prompt answers. Following are 
forms for same: 



Mrs. Donald G. Phillips 
Accepts with Pleasure 

Mrs. James K. Burton's 

Kind Invitation to Luncheon 

ON THURSDAY, MAY THE THIRD 
at two o'clock 

35 Porter Square 



OR 



21 Wickham Place, 
June 30th, 19—. 
Dear Mrs. Minot: 

It gives me great pleasure to accept your 
invitation to breakfast on July the first, 
at eleven o'clock. 

Sincerely yours, 
Madeline Bridges. 



or 



"Mardemere," 
November 3rd, 19 — . 
Dear Mrs. Montgomery : 

I am extremely sorry that I am not 
able to accept the invitation for your 
luncheon on Friday next, but a previous 
engagement debars me from the great 
pleasure. With sincere regrets, believe me, 
Cordially yours, 
Chlotilde Wynne, 



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A FORMAL LUNCHEON. 

For a ceremonious luncheon the hour is 
set at one, half-past one, or two o'clock, 
and the hostess lays her table and selects 
her menu with taste and luxurious liber- 
ality. Occasionally very sumptuous lunch- 
eons are spread on a number of small, 
round tables placed in the dining room, 
and possibly also in the library, if it ad- 
joins the dining room. Every table seats 
four guests and is adorned with its own 
flowers, and if artificial light is desired 
its own candles. The general practice, 
however, favors one spacious table spread 
with a white damask cloth, and a white 
centerpiece of lace or drawn work, upon 
which is set a silver loving cup or vase of 
flowers. The covers are laid as for a din- 
ner. To the left of every plate is placed a 
second small decorated one, to receive the 
guests' bread and butter, and small silver 
knives are provided for use with these 
plates. 

THE MENU. 

At a fashionable luncheon, given in 
winter, the menu as a rule includes oysters 
on the half-shell; hot bouillon, served in 
cups; a fish course — usually lobster ; tim- 
bales of chicken or pates; sweetbreads 
with green peas or a fillet of beef with as- 
paragus. A pudding or ices, fruit, bon- 
bons and coffee conclude the repast. 

In summer in the country a charming 
luncheon consists of clams on ice, fol- 
lowed by jellied bouillon, chops with a 
vegetable, mushrooms on toast, broiled 
chicken with lettuce salad, strawberries 
with ice cream, bonbons and coffee. 

THE BREAKFAST PARTY. 

The well-selected twelve o'clock break- 
fast begins with fruits; lobster, sweet- 
breads in a large pastry shell, mushrooms, 
broiled chicken with French peas, toasted 
biscuits with creamy cheese, a pastry with 
game, and coffee, tea or chocolate. 

The above menu is suitable for a very 
ceremonious affair. 



for a simple country breakfast the fol- 
lowing menu will prove satisfactory: 

Fruits, followed by small, delicately 
broiled fish with potatoes. Eggs with hot 
home-made bread, chops with tomato 
salad, and coffee. 

VISITING AND HOUSE PARTIES. 

A well-worded note offering the hospi- 
talities of one's roof for a number of days, 
or of weeks, should explicitly stipulate the 
exact dates on which it will be most con- 
venient to welcome the coming and speed 
the parting guest. 

Not infrequently a hostess asks a friend 
to fix for himself the time and length of a 
visit, or names two or three dates on which 
she will be at liberty to receive him. But 
ordinarily it is not only no discourtesy, 
but a kindness and a compliment for the 
hostess to designate the day and hour 
when she will be best prepared to receive 
her friend, and she may also specify the 
boat or train on which the visitor shall 
come. 

FORMS OF INVITATIONS TO HOUSE PARTIES. 

Eochester, May 14th, 19 — . 
My Dear Miss Payne : 

We are planning to entertain a few 
friends during the week of the Fourth of 
July, and I hope you can arrange to come 
to us on the first and remain until the 
tenth. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tyner, the 
Dunhams and one or two others have 
promised, so only your presence is needed 
to complete our party and our pleasure. 
If you can come, I suggest your taking 
the 3 :30 train from Brighton, and arriv- 
ing here at 7 :30 on the evening of the 
first. I will meet you at Cuyler station. 

Trusting that nothing will arise to pre- 
vent your coming, I am, as always, 
Sincerely yours, 

Maud D. Mapleton. 

REPLY. 

Brighton, May 20th, 19 — . 
My Dear Mrs. Mapleton: 

I am charmed to say that I see nothing 



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to prevent my acceptance of your irresist- 
ible invitation. I shall be so pleased to 
renew my acquaintance with the Tyners 
and the Dunhams, and I accept your ad- 
vice as to trains, etc. 

With kindest regards, I am 
Sincerely yours, 

Estelle Payne. 

the formal house party. 

A house party consists, strictly speak- 
ing, of from four to twenty guests gath- 
ered in a country home for any length of 
time, from three days to a fortnight. The 
limits of the visit are very exactly denned 
in the invitations, and the time is devoted 
to the enjoyment of a round of the most 
agreeable, well-planned and varied diver- 
sions that the entertainers can provide. 

A hostess should know the resources at 
her command and also something of the 
tastes and habits of her guests, and accord- 
ingly she should be able to provide proper 
amusements. In planning entertainment 
it is safe to appoint no special occupation 
for the mornings. When the party is con- 
ducted on a large scale, breakfast will be 
likely to continue late in the morning. 
Many women even prefer to keep to their 
rooms until just before luncheon, writing 
letters, etc., or to pass the time very quiet- 
ly on a shady veranda gossiping, reading 
novels, or doing a bit of fancy work or to 
stroll about the grounds. When, however, 
as sometimes happens, the morning is 
given up to an expedition the guests may 
be left to themselves during the afternoon, 
thus giving the hostess an opportunity to 
prepare for the feature that is to fill the 
evening. 

It rests with a hostess to confer yet 
fuller blessings of comfort and pleasure 
by always forbearing to force a guest to 
take any part in any planned pleasuring 
or expedition ; and also when her opin- 
ions are radically opposed to those of her 
visitor, graciously avoiding argument or 
conflict, and finally by tactfully interpos- 
ing when any of her company fall into vio- 



lent discussions. Too many good-natured 
ladies feel dread at leaving visitors at their 
own devices for a time, and are panic- 
stricken at the sight of a guest engaged, 
for instance, with a book, lest for the one 
so occupied the time is hanging heavily 
and she herself has been neglectful. But 
really the prime rule of good entertain- 
ment is to allow any visitor who is stop- 
ping at your house something of the same 
liberty in disposing of his time that he 
would have at home. Hence, while it is 
nothing short of brutal to invite half a 
dozen visitors to one's house and leave 
them to pick up diversions as best they 
may, it is not less reprehensible to over- 
entertain — to rout out nervously a sleep- 
ing matron at her napping hour in order 
to torment her with the sight of a tennis 
tournament ; to wrest a perfectly satisfied 
man from his book and cigar with orders 
to join in a long drive, and to break in on 
an agreeable tete-a-tete because of a sus- 
picion that the talkers would relish a new 
note in their conversation. 

THE GUEST CHAMBER. 

A striking and admirable feature of the 
new and splendid country house is its 
many guest rooms, for the modern hostess 
would no more venture to ask two women 
just introduced to one another to occupy 
the same bed than she would dare to pro- 
vide them with but one plate at her 
table. A perfectly appointed country 
home with small single rooms for its sin- 
gle guests ; and where sisters, a mother 
and a daughter, or a husband and wife are 
asked to share one chamber, two single 
beds are invariably provided. Ample 
closet room is placed at the disposal of 
every guest, and either a bath is attached 
to each room or the occupants of not 
more than three rooms are required to 
share one bathroom. However simply a 
guest chamber is furnished, let it always 
be a model of comfort, neatness and cheer- 
fulness. A fresh, brightly figured paper, 
the floor covered with Japanese matting 
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chintz-covered furniture and a sleep-invit- 
ing bed are the most important details in 
the fitting of such an apartment. Since the 
preferences and habits of no two guests 
are alike, it is essential to provide for the 
vagaries of every individual. One visitor 
will not find it difficult to sleep profound- 
ly with the sun streaming in at every win- 
dow; another will be distinctly wretched 
if the morning light cannot be excluded. 
Therefore, the thoughtful hostess, if the 
outside or inside shutters of her guest 
room do not work easily, will hang dark 
holland shades at every window, such as 
will easily roll up and be out of sight all 
day and then be drawn at night. In the 
closet of the guest chamber an extra blan- 
ket should always be folded; a table with 
a lamp, candle and matches should be 
placed at the bedside; the bells for sum- 
moning the servants should be in working 
order, and there should be many small con- 
veniences supplied, such as pens, ink, sta- 
tionery, telegraph blanks and a calendar 
on a small writing desk or table near the 
window, and over the desk or table a card 
that states the hours at which letters can 
be posted and received. The hostess who 
is thoughtful in all these details sees also 
that there is a workbox supplied with all 
necessary articles for repairing clothing. 
She also makes it a rule to look in person 
through the room when an occupant is ex- 
pected, to assure herself that it has been 
properly aired, that the toilet accessories 
are complete and that closets and drawers 
are empty and immaculately clean. 

WELCOMING VISITORS. 

As the hour of arrival is always speci- 
fied in the notes of invitation and accept- 
ance, the host or hostess should be in at- 
tendance at the dock or railway station to 
meet and greet the expected friend, and 
this is an almost unavoidable obligation 
when the expected guest is an unmarried 
woman making her first visit. Bachelors 
or married couples are not supposed to re- 



quire the guidance and help necessary for 
a timid young lady, and a competent, 
quick-witted man-servant may be trusted 
to do the honors at the station for them. 

It is the duty of the host or hostess to 
provide proper transportation, not only 
for the visitor, but for his or her luggage 
from the station. And when the guest 
reaches the door the hostess should be there 
herself to offer a warm welcome. 

THE IDEAL GUEST. 

To be an agreeable guest for the brief 
hour or two of a formal entertainment is 
not a difficult achievement, but to prove 
oneself an amiable and accommodating 
visitor for the space of a fortnight or more 
is the best test by which the possession of 
spirits, good-breeding and innate kindness 
can be demonstrated. Arrived at his or 
her destination, and made welcome, the 
ideal visitor, without doing violence to 
physical strength or strong personal pref- 
erences, essays to fall in with the customs 
of the household as nearly as possible and 
to find pleasure and occupation in the di- 
versions provided by the host and hostess. 
A truly considerate guest, whether man 
or woman, is careful before leaving his or 
her room in the morning, to hang or fold 
away all garments, to throw the bed covers 
back on a chair. drawn to the foot of the 
bed and to open wide the windows. 

A woman visitor may well regard it as 
one of her daily duties to straighten all 
the articles upon her dressing table, to 
set her wash-stand to rights, put soiled 
clothing in their proper bag or basket, and, 
save that the bed is left open to air, give 
her chamber the air of the most exquisite 
tidiness. 

At the close of the visit, the guest shall 
bid adieu to members of the family indi- 
vidually. Within ten days after a visit, 
a short note should be dispatched to the 
hostess, informing her of the guest's safe 
arrival home and expressing anew her 
pleasure at the entertainment enjoyed. 



THE LANGUAGE OF THE HAND 



AND WHAT IT REVEALS. 

^? ^^ ^* 



?)JiALMISTKY is divided into two 
technical sciences, known as chirog- 
nomy and chiromancy. Chirognomy is 
the science of determining individual 



traits and hereditary tendencies by study- 
ing the shape and pose of the hand. Chiro- 
mancy is the science of determining the 
acquired characteristics of a person, fore- 




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399 



telling events, etc., etc., by the study of 
the lines and markings to be found in the 
palm of the hand. The same distinction 
exists between chirognomy and chiroman- 
cy that exists between phrenology and 
physiognomy. 

The hand, more than any other organ of 
the body, executes the commands or voli- 
tions which originate in the brain. This 
intimate relation between the brain and 
the hand is the reason why natural traits 
and acquired characteristics can be read 
from it. 

The hand which is most used alters its 
shape or develops the qualities which are 
forming in a subject ; it also acquires new 
lines from which the character, feelings 
and future events can be read. And thus 
it is that in right-handed people the mark- 
ings of the right hand should be studied 
for the present state of development, while 
the left hand, because less used, is better 
for the study of hereditary or natural con- 
ditions. If the left hand is badly marked 
and the right hand well marked such a 
person has improved himself; but if the 
right hand is poorly marked and the left 
hand well shaped and marked, this shows 
that the subject has not improved his nat- 
ural talents. The left hand is known as 
the passive hand, the right hand as the 
active. (As a matter of course this is re- 
versed in left-handed persons.) 



POSE. 



The pose of the hand is the manner in 
which they are carried when the subject is 
not conscious that he is being observed. 
It is the manner in which the hands are 
carried in walking along the streets, or in 
every-day occupations. 

When the hands firmly close, it indi- 
cates one who is self-contained, deter- 
mined, energetic and who can keep a 
secret. If the fingers hang loosely, and 
the hand hangs limp at the side, there is 
little fixedness of purpose, lack of concen- 
tration, the mind is vacant, and such ob- 
jects cannot be trusted with a secret. 

If a subject continually tries to hide the 



hand, and does not expose the palm freely 
when shaking hands or making gestures, 
his is a nature not open and frank, but he 
is naturally secretive. If the palm is ex- 
posed freely to view the subject has no 
thoughts which he wishes to conceal. 

COLOR OF THE HAND. 

The color of the hand, as shown in the 
palm and under the nails, is of great value 
and requires close study. White hands 
show deficient circulation of the blood, 
and a cold, selfish, unsympathetic temper- 
ament; such people are liable to disease 
of the nervous system. Pink color of the 
palm and nails indicates good blood sup- 
ply, good health, good temper, generosity 
and sympathy. Such people are more 
liable to acute diseases than chronic. Red 
color shows an excess of blood, and indi- 
cates strong feelings, great activity and a 
liability to diseases of the brain. Yellow 
color indicates a morbid, nervous, disa- 
greeable disposition, ordinarily known as 
the bilious temperament. Such people arc 
liable to diseases of the liver and indiges- 
tion. Bluish color of the palm and nails 
indicates deficiency of the circulation, and 
a great liability to heart disease. 

TEXTURE AND FLEXIBILITY. 

The texture of the skin of the hand, if 
very soft and fine, indicates refinement. 
If the texture of the skin is rough and 
harsh the subject has a coarser nature, and 
lacks natural refinement. Flexibility of 
the hand is the ease with which it is bent 
backwards. Some hands are so stiff that 
they cannot be bent back at all. The stiff 
hand shows an unelastic mind, not easily 
adapted to changing conditions, a nature 
which runs in ruts, is immovable, and is 
inclined to stinginess. 

Flexible hands show an elastic mind, 
which adapts itself readily to any sur- 
rounding, is versatile, brilliant, but in 
danger of becoming an extremist, and lack- 
ing concentration — a jack-of-all-trades. 
The flabby hand shows the absolutely lazy 



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subject, who will not work. The soft hand 
shows laziness, but in less degree. The 
hard hand denotes love of work. 

SEVEN TYPES OF HANDS. 

The hand, according to shape, is di- 
vided into seven distinct types. The first 
type is the elementary or lowest type. This 
hand has short clubbed fingers and a 
thick, coarse thumb. The palm is heavy 
and thick, the nails short. This is the 
purest animal type. Such people cannot 
reason, but act by instinct. They simply 
eat, sleep and die. 




FIG. I. 

Square hand denotes love of method, logic, rea- 
son, conventionality, tenacity of purpose; an 
affectionate, honest, practical nature. 

Seven Types of Hands. 

I. Elementary or lowest type. 

II. Square hand. (Fig. I.) 

III. Spatulate hand. (Fig. II.) 

IV. Knotty or Philosophic hand. 
(Fig. III.) 

V. Conic hand. (Fig. IV.) 

VI. Psychic hand. (Fig. V.) 

VII. Mixed hand. 



THE MIXED HAND. 

The seventh type is the mixed hand. 
This hand contains fingers belonging to 
the different types above mentioned. It is 
the hand of versatility, and generally 
changeability of purpose. Its possessors 
have great diplomacy and tact. Can adapt 
themselves to any circumstances. Are 
very unstable, consequently are rarely suc- 
cessful. (The remaining types are de- 
scribed briefly under cuts.) 

THE FOUR FORMATIONS OF FINGER TIPS. 

The finger tips have four formations, 
and all hands have a combination of some 
of these tips. 





a 



A. The spatulate tip indicates activity 
and originality. Make good explorers, in- 
ventors. 





B. The square tip indicates regularity, 
system, order. Women with such finger 
tips make good housekeepers. 



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C. The pointed tip shows the idealist, 
one who is dreamy and has impractical 
views. Does not succeed in every-day life. 
Needs affection. 

D. The conic tip indicates an artistic 
nature, one who loves beauty in form, 
color and nature. Such tips on a coarse 
hand indicate love of flashy dress and dis- 
play. 

HEALTH AS INDICATED BY FINGER NAILS. 

The nails on the fingers are remarkably 
sure guides as regards health. Short nails, 
very flat "V"-shaped and inclined to lift 
up at the edges, are the fore-runners of 
paralysis. (Fig. E.) Short nails, thin 





(Q\ 



and flat at the base, show a tendency to- 
ward heart disease. (Fig. F.) 

Fig. G denotes a tendency toward 
throat affections. 



/Q 




H 



I 



I 



Fig. H denotes delicacy of lungs. 
Fig. I denotes consumptive tendencies. 



Short-nailed people have a greater ten- 
dency to suffer from heart trouble and dis- 
eases affecting the trunk and lower limbs 
than those with long nails. Long-nailed 
persons are more liable to trouble in the 
upper half of the system, in the lungs, 
chest and head. 

DISPOSITION AS SHOWN BY THE NAILS. 

People with long nails are less critical 
and more impressionable than those with 
short nails ; inclined to be visionary, fond 
of poetry and the fine arts. 

People with short nails are extremely 
critical, have quick, sharp judgment, keen 
sense of humor, quick-tempered. When 
the nail is broader than it is long the in- 
dications are pugnacity, a tendency to 
worry and meddle. 

JOINTS OF THE FINGERS. 

When the joints of the fingers are 
largely developed (Fig. J), such persons 
are reasoners, analyzers and philosophers. 
They make excellent mathematicians and 
historians, and form their opinions after 
much thought and analysis. Fingers are 
called smooth when the joints are not de- 
veloped (K, smooth pointed finger; L, 




(Q 



smooth square finger). Subjects with 
smooth fingers think by intuition and do 
not analyze or reason. They are naturally 
artistic. They form their opinions quickly. 
Each finger has two joints called knots 
(see complete diagram). When the first 
knot of the finger is well developed, the 



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indications are mental order and system; 
ideas will be well arranged. 

The second knot developed denotes sys- 
tem and order in every-day affairs, ex- 
quisite neatness. 

LENGTH OF FINGERS. 

A person with unusually long ringers is 
naturally suspicious, easily wounded, very 
neat in dress, but, as they love detail, very 
slow. They are cautious, reserved. 

Very short fingers denote one who 
thinks quickly, deals in generalities, at- 
tempts great enterprises. He acts by in- 
spiration, on the spur of the moment; 
never analyzes. 

THE THUMB. 

The thumb is the indicator of will 
power, reasoning faculties, and love, rep- 
resenting the three great moral forces 
which operate so powerfully on human 




FIG. II. 

Spatulate hand denotes love of action, energy 
and independence, sometimes restlessness and 
excitability. 



gth 



life. Large thumbs show greater stren 
of character, more determination and bet- 
ter reasoning faculties than small thumbs, 
which are deficient in these qualities. 



The first phalanx (see complete dia- 
gram) indicates by its length and breadth 
the amount of will power and determina- 
tion and the ability to command others. 

The second phalanx indicates by its 
length and thickness the strength of the 
reasoning faculties, and the possession of 
logic, prudence and tact. 

The fleshy part at the base of the thumb, 
when full and pink, has the indications 
printed at the base of the thumb in the 
complete diagram. When flat and pale 
one is wanting in all the qualities named. 
When thick and coarse and red in color it 
indicates sensuality. If the first phalanx 
is longer than the second, the will power 
will dominate the reasoning faculties. The 
subject will think first and act afterward. 
If the second phalanx is longer, reason 
will dominate will, and the subject will 
know what he ought to do, but will lack 
determination to do it. If the tip of the 
thumb is pointed, the subject will be highly 
impressionable, and will easily be mis- 
led. 

THREE DIVISIONS OF THE HAND. 

Hand 

1. Fingers — mental world. 

2. Middle Palm — practical or 

material world. 

3. Base of Palm — animal side of 

nature. 

In reading a hand, one should notice 
carefully which one of the worlds is the 
most noticeable. For instance, a hand 
with very long fingers indicates an intel- 
ligent person whose greatest success would 
be in mental vocations. If the middle por- 
tion of the hand is most pronounced in de- 
velopment, he will succeed in business. If 
the lower portion is thick and largely de- 
veloped, he will have low appetites, and be 
animal in his desires. 

THE SEVEN TYPES INDICATED BY THE 
MOUNTS. 

Mounts 

1. Jupitcrian — ambition. 



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2. Saturnian — wisdom, 
o. Apollonian — brilliant. 

4. Mercurian 
orator. 

physician or lawyer, 
merchant. 

5. Martian — courageous. 
G. 
7. Venutian — love 



Lunarian — imagination. 



The complete diagram illustrates the 
location and boundary of the mounts of 
the hand, and it is from these mounts that 
people are identified as belonging to one 
or the other seven types. Close inspection 
of the skin covering the mounts will show 
that tiny ridges come together, forming a 
minute triangle. (See apex of mount.) 
This shows the apex of each mount, which 
should be located in the center of the 
mount. If the apex leans towards one of 
the other mounts, it gives off part of its 
strength to the mount toward which it 
leans. If the apex is centrally located on 
one mount, and the apexes of all the other 
mounts are pulled towards it, the subject 
belongs to the type which has the apex 
centrally located. No matter where the 
puffiness of the mount may come, the cen- 
ter of the mount must be located from the 
apex. If a mount is high, with the apex 
in the center, it locates the subject as be- 
longing to that mount, it strengthens the 
power of that mount. If the person has, 
in addition, a large and long finger above 
the mount, the type will be well pro- 
nounced. 

THE JUPITERIAN MOUNT. 

The Jupiterian, the first of these 
mounts, is indicated by a centrally located 
apex on the mount of Jupiter and a long 
finger of Jupiter. 

The Jupiterian is a large, commanding 
person, with a fine presence, solid and 
graceful carriage, and a firm muscular 
strength, a clear eye and well-cut features. 
The leading trait of the Jupiterian is am- 
bition, and he is the natural leader of men. 



He is justly inclined, honorable, and has a 
great love of nature. 




fig in. 



Knotty or philosophic hand denotes love of wis- 
dom, mystery and the utilities, deep thinkers, 
careful over little matters. 

THE SATURNIAN MOUNT. 

The next type is the Saturnian, and is 
located by a centrally placed apex on the 
mount of Saturn and a long finger of Sat- 
urn. 

The Saturnian is tall, thin, lank, has 
withered, wrinkled skin, yellow in color, 
long, straight hair, dark, receding eyes, 
narrow chest and a shambling, unsteady 
gait. He is intensely nervous and very 
cross and irritable. The Saturnians do 
not like society, but prefer study and re- 
search. They are great chemists, mathe- 
maticians, historians, and make able 
jurors. They are apt to be melancholy, 
morbid, often superstitious, and always 
take a rather gloomy view of life. 

The Saturnian has been dominated the 
balance wheel for humanity. 

THE APOLLONIAN MOUNT. 

The third mount type is the Apollonian, 
who is identified by a centrally located 



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apex on the mount of Apollo and a longer 
finger of Apollo. He is a bright, spark- 
ling, brilliant person, handsome in appear- 
ance, with a finely poised head, delicately 
chiseled features, a finely shaped body and 
a springy, elastic gait. He has an artistic 
temperament, and from this type came the 
great painters, artists, musicians and au- 
thors. The Apollonians are also great 
money makers and gain popularity easily. 

THE MERCURIAN MOUNT. 

The Mercurian, indicated by a centrally 
located apex on the mount of Mercury and 
a long finger of Mercury, is the smallest 
of all the types, is compact, muscular, ac- 
tive and wiry. He is quick and energetic, 
and a great traveler. .-This type is the 
three-sided one. If the first phalanx (see 
diagram) of the finger of Mercury is the 
longest, it indicates a splendid speaker or 
orator ; if the middle phalanx is the long- 
est, such persons make splendid physicians 
and lawyers. A long third phalanx of the 
Mercury finger is the business side of the 
type, making the most successful of mer- 
chants and commercial men. His leading 
traits are his wonderful assurance, great 
ability to read human nature, and his 
commercial instincts. Mercurians are 
most successful business men. This type, 
however, has a bad side, and when the fin- 
ger of Mercury is very crooked it indi- 
cates dishonesty. From this type we get 
most pronounced criminals, who are re- 
nowned for lying, swindling and cheating. 

THE LUNARIAN MOUNT. 

The Lunarian is identified by the mount 
of the Moon. (See frontispiece.) This 
subject is predisposed to imagination, and 
if of a pronounced type is cold and un- 
sympathetic, fond of mysticism, is super- 
stitious, is not generous, and often dreamy 
and visionary. The Lunarian has, in a 
high degree, the faculty of language. 

~No great authors, actors, painters, mu- 
sicians, but have well-developed mounts of 
the Moon. 



The Lunarian type is greatly prone to 
disease. If the color of the mount is pink 
or red this liability is decreased. The 
mount must be divided into three sections, 
horizontally, the upper third locating the 
difficulties with the intestines and bowels, 
the central section of the mount locating 
the health difficulties of acute rheumatism 




FIG. IV. 

The conic hand denotes impulse and instinct, 
love of luxury and the artistic. Esthetic appre- 
ciation. 



and the lower third of the mount locating 
the diseases of the kidneys and bladder, 
and, in the hands of women, severe female 
disorders. The color of the hand is most 
important to consider with this type, for 
anything approaching pink or red will de- 
crease the liability of these health difficul- 
ties, and anything approaching whiteness 
or pallor increases the liability to them. 
Cross-bars or grills on the mount, stars or 
other defects, all locate these health 
troubles, and by noting on which third of 
the mount they are seen it will indicate 
which of the health difficulties peculiar to 
the type are present. 



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THE MARTIAN MOUNT. 

The Martian type is identified by the 
upper and lower mounts of Mars, on the 
plain of Mars, the location and boundaries 
of which are shown in the perfect diagram. 
The lower mount of Mars indicates great 
aggression. When largely developed it 
becomes disagreeable and denotes quarrel- 
someness. The upper mount of Mars 
shows resistance, or the power of self- 
defense. Such people are calm, coura- 
geous, cool in moments of danger, are not 
discouraged when adversity comes. The 
Martians are a very intense type, and from 
them come great soldiers, statesmen, pugi- 
lists and athletes. The Martian is very 
closely knit, muscular in frame, has large 
legs, a big chest, thick neck, rather bullet- 
shaped head. The hair is coarse, and the 
eyes have a bold, determined look. They 
walk with a firm tread and show them- 
selves to be always on the defensive. 

THE VENUTIAN. 

The Venutian type is located from the 
mount of Venus. This stands for love, 
beauty, grace, pleasure, sympathy and 
generosity. The Venutians are immensely 
attractive to all of the opposite sex. They 

'are intensely human and generous, but 
slightly vain. Fond of amusements. They 
are handsome, finely shaped, with pink 

' skin, and a healthy, attractive appearance ; 

'they possess strong vitality. 

Where the hand is thick and coarse, the 

:skin coarse and the mount of Venus de- 
veloped low at the base, Venutians become 

(coarse sensualists, and are terribly im- 

1 moral. 

PREDISPOSITION TO MARRIAGE OF THE 
SEVEN TYPES. 

All of the seven types of people have a 
predisposition on the marriage question. 
The Jupitarian marries early in life and 
aspires to one who is prominent and well 
known. They often have unhappy mar- 
riages, owing to the fact that their ambi- 
Itions are great. 



The Saturn ian dislikes the married 
state exceedingly. He is not amorou- or 
healthy, and prefers seclusion, quiet and 
study to gaiety or society. 




fig. v. 

The psychic hand denotes the purely visionary 
idealistic nature, one that is calm, cold and 
chaste. Has no practical, business-like or logical 
side. 



The Apollonians are gay and bright, 
and predisposed to marry. They have 
many unhappy experiences in the married 
state, as they seldom choose those who are 
brilliant, like themselves. It is a peculiar 
fact that Apollonians select plain persons. 

The Mercurian is a great match-maker. 
He is predisposed to marry himself, and 
gets up matches for all his friends. He 
chooses a tidy, trim person, who is small, 
like himself, and bright and vivacious. 
Mercurians most often marry subjects of 
their own type. 

Martians are greatly predisposed to 
marry. They are an intense, ardent type, 
and do their love-making in a fierce and 
rigorous fashion. They choose Venutian 
subjects almost always. 

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to marry, but they marry oftener than the 
Saturnians. They are capricious and 
fickle, and cold by nature, consequently 
their marriages are extremely eccentric. 
Either they marry those very much older 
than themselves, or much younger, or in 
some way entirely out of proportion. 

Yenutians are certain to marry. They 
fall into the married state naturally, ad- 
mire the types which are very strong and 
manly. The Venutian is a feminine type, 
although it is found among the male sex. 
There is always a desire, in the married 
state, that the partner shall be of a strong 
and intense type. Many Venutians con- 
sequently marry the Martian type. 

THE LINES ON THE HAND. 

The engraving shows the palm of the 
hand, the principal lines indicated and 
named. In reading the lines on the hand, 
the right hand should be read, as the lines 
in the right hand show the present devel- 
opment of a person. Following are the 
lines which should be closely examined on 
reading a hand : 

Line of Life. — The line of life should 
be long, narrow and deep, without irreg- 
ularities, breaks or crosses of any kind. 
If chained, made up of little links, it is a 
sure sign of bad health. This line should 
begin immediately under the mount of 
Jupiter and embrace the whole of the 
mount of Yenus. 

Line of Mars rises on the mount of 
Mars and sweeps down by the side of the 
line of life. Denotes excess of health. 

Line of Head indicates intellectual 
strength or weakness. When straight, 
clear and even, it denotes practical com- 
mon sense, and a love of material things. 
When straight in the first half, then 
slightly sloping, it shows a balance be- 
tween the imaginative and the purely 
practical. When the entire line has a 
slight slope, the indications are imagina- 
tive works in the arts. A short line indi- 
cates a material nature; when linked, in- 



decision; when full of little hair lines, 
danger of brain disease. 

Line of Heart should be deep, clear and 
well colored. When it rises from the cen- 
ter of the mount of Jupiter, it gives the 
highest type of love. When it rises from 
the mount of Saturn, indicates passion in 
attachments. When very long, indicates 
excess of affection; inclination toward 
jealousy; when red, it denotes violence of 
passion; when pale and broad, indiffer- 
ence; when close to the line of head, the 
heart will interfere with affairs of the 
head. 

Line of Fate relates to all worldly af- 
fairs. Should begin at the wrist and pro- 
ceed straight up the hand to the mount of 
Saturn, indicates good fortune and suc- 
cess. When it begins far up the hand, in- 
dicates success gained late in life. 

Line of Sun. — Brilliancy or success. 
When it begins at the line of life, indi- 
cates success in artistic pursuits. 

Line of Health should lie straight down 
the hand, the straighter the better. An 
excellent sign to be without this line ; indi- 
cates healthy, robust nature. 

Via Lasciva should run off the palm 
into the wrist ; gives force to the passions. 
If running into the mount of Yenus, 
shortens natural length of life by excesses. 

Girdle of Venus, on a thick hand, indi- 
cates sensuality. When on a conic or psy- 
chic hand, indicates an exacting tempera- 
ment. 

Ring of Saturn. — !N"ot a good sign to 
have on the hand; prevents success. 

Bracelets, when very high, indicate in- 
ternal weakness. When clearly defined, 
indicate strong health and a robust consti- 
tution. 

Line of Marriage. — When the line of 
marriage lies close to the line of head, it. 
indicates an early marriage — near the cen- 
ter of the mount, from 21 to 28, and so on. 
Only the long lines relate to marriage, 
and the short ones to deep affection or mar- 
riage contemplated. 



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Note. — In reading the hand it must be remembered that the color, texture, flexibility 
and formation of the joints of the hand, as well as the formation of the finger tips, must 
be taken into consideration. See outline which follows. 

r I. Color of the Hand. 



II. Texture and Flexibility. 



PALMISTRY, 



III. Types of Hands. 






IV. Formations of Finger Tips. 



V. Health as Indicated by Finger Nails. 

VI. Disposition as Indicated by Finger 

Nails. 

VII. Joints of Fingers. 

VIII. Length of Fingers. 



IX. Divisions of hand. 



X. Mount Types. 



1. Elementary. 

2. Square. 

3. Spatulate. 

4. Knotty or Philo- 

sophic. 

5. Conic. 

6. Psychic. 

7. Mixed. 



f 1. Spatulate. 

J 2. Square, 

j 3. Pointed. 

(^ 4. Conic. 



1. Mental. 

2. Material. 

3. Animal. 



1. Jupiterian. 

2. Saturnian. 

3. Apollonian. 
■< 4. Mercurian. 

5. Martian. 

6. Venutian. 
^ 7. Luna. 



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THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 

IHE language of flowers is a language 
that is more often spoken of than 
practiced ; but that our readers may know 
how to contrive a bouquet that shall tell 
its own story — be, in fact, a communica- 
tion from sender to receiver — we append a 
list of flowers with their floral significa- 
tions. 

FLORAL DICTIONARY. 

Almond Tree Heedlessness 

Aloe Affliction 

Apple Blossom Preference 

Arbor Vitse Old Age 

Azalea Temperance 

Bachelors' Buttons . . . Single Blessedness 

Balsam Impatience 

Burdock Importunity 

Buttercup Childish Glee 

Gandy Tuft . Architecture 

Carnation Refusal 

Cherry Good Education 

Chestnut Blossom Do Me Justice 

China Aster Variety 

China Pink Aversion 

China Rose Beauty Always New 

Chrysanthemum 

Cheerfulness Under Adversity 

Clover Provident 

Cock's-comb Singularity 

Columbine Polly 

Cowslip Pensiveness 

Crab Apple Ill Nature 

Crowfoot Ingratitude 

Cypress Death 

Daffodil Deceitful Hope 

Dahlia Instability 

Daisy Innocence 

Dandelion Oracle 

Dogwood Durability 

Double Daisy Participation 

Elder Zealousness 

Evening Primrose Inconstancy 

Faded Leaves Melancholy 

Pig Tree Prolific 

Flax Fate 

Forgetmenot Faithfulness 

Foxglove Youth 



Full-Blown Rose Beauty 

Garden Anemone Expectation 

Garden Marigold Uneasiness 

Geranium Gentility 

Golden Rod Precaution 

Grass Utility 

Hemlock You Will Cause My Death 

Hepatica Confidence 

Hollyhock Fecundity 

Holly Foresight 

Hop Injustice 

Horse Chestnut . . Luxuriancy 

Honeysuckle Bond of Love 

Hyacinth Game, or Play 

Ivy True Friendship 

Juniper . Asylum 

Larkspur Levity, Fickleness 

Laurel Glory 

Lavender Assiduity 

Lemon Zest' 

Lettuce Coldheartedness 

Lilac Forsaken 

Lily Innocence 

Lily of the Valley. .Return of Happiness 

Lime Tree Conjugal Fidelity 

Lotus Silence 

Maiden's Hair Secrecy 

Mandrake . .Rarity 

Maple Reserve 

Marigold Despair 

Mignonette 

Your Qualities Surpass Your Charms 

Milk Vetch Presence Softens Pain 

Mistletoe Parasite 

Mulberry Tree Wisdom 

Mushroom Upstart 

Myrtle Mildness 

Narcissus Egotism 

Oak Tree Hospitality 

Olive Peace 

Orange Blossom Marriage 

Palm Victory 

Pansy Thought 

Parsley Feast 

Passion Flower Superstition 

Peach Blossom Perfidy 

Peony Shame 

Peppermint Warmth of Temper 

Phlox Unanimity 

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Pine Tree Boldness 

Plum Tire Independence 

Poppy Consolation in Sickness 

Quince Temptation 

Red Pink Lively and Pure Love 

Ripe Currants You Please All 

Rose Love and Joy 

Rosebud Youthf ulness 

Saffron Flower Do Not Abuse 

Sage Esteem 

Scarlet Fuschia Taste 

Scarlet Nasturtium Splendor 

Sensitive Plant Bashf ulness 

Snap Dragon Presumption 

Snowdrop Consolation 

Sunflower False Riches 

Strawberry Perfection 

Sweet Briar Poetry 

Sweet Pea Delicate Pleasure 

Sweet Sultan Widowhood 

Sweet William Craftiness 

Syringa Memory 

Thistle Surliness 

Thorn Apple Deceitful Charms 

Tiger Lily Pretension 

Tuberose Voluptuousness 

Tulip Declaration of Love 

Valerian . . . .Accommodating Disposition 

Violet Modesty 

Water Lily Purity 

Weeping Willow Mourning 

Wheat Riches 

White Jasmine Amiableness 

White Pink Talent 

White Rosebud .Ignorant of Love 

White Violet Candor 

Wood Anemone Sickness 

Wormwood Absence 

Yellow Rose Infidelity 



BIRDS THAT LIVE IN POEMS. 

(Give names of birds and authors.) 
1. 

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the 
night's Plutonian shore. 

2. 

Thou wast not born for death, immortal 
bird, 



Xo hungry generations tread thee down, 
The voice I hear this passing night was 
heard 

In ancient days by emperor and clown. 
Perhaps the self-same song that found a 

path 
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick 

for home, 
She stood in tears amid the alien corn. 

3. 
Half hid in tip-top apple blooms he swings, 
Or climbs ag'inst the breeze with quiverin' 

wings, 
Or, givin' way to 't in a mock despair, 
Runs down, a brook o' laughter, through 
the air. 

4. 
This poet, though he dwells apart, 
Moved by his hospitable heart, 
Sped, as I passed his sylvan fort, 
To do the honors of his court 
As fits a feathered lord of land. 
Flew near, with soft wing grazed my hand, 
Hopped on the bough, then, darting low, 
Prints his small impress on the snow, 
Shows feats of his gymnastic play, 
Head downward, clinging to the spray. 

5. 
Higher still and higher 

From the earth thou springest, 
Like, a cloud of fire 

The blue deep thou wingest, 
And, singing still, dost soar, and, 

Soaring, ever singest. 

6. 
Sing of the air, of the wild delight 

Of wings that uplift and of winds that 
uphold you, 
The joy of freedom, the rapture of flight, 
Through the rifts of the floating mists 

that enfold you. 
7. 

He sings each song twice over, 
Lest we should think he never could recap- 
ture 
The first, fine, careless rapture. 

8. 
Thrice welcome, darling of the spring, 
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No bird, but an invisible thing, 
A voice, a mystery. 

9. 

He clasps the crag with hooked hands, 
Close to the sun, in lonely lands, 
Kinged with the azure world, he stands. 

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls, 
He watches from his mount in walls, 
And, like a thunderbolt, he falls. 

10. 
I watch him as he skims along, 

Uttering his sweet and mournful cry, 
He starts not at my fitful song, 

Or flash of fluttering drapery. 
He has no thought of any wrong, 

He scans me with a fearless eye. 

ANSWERS. 

1 — Eaven. — Edgar 'Allen Roe. 
2 — Nightingale. — John Keats. 
3 — Bobolink. — James Russell Lowell. 
4 — Titmouse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
5 — Skylark. — Percy Shelley. 
6 — Heron. — Henry Wadsworth Longfel- 
low. 
7 — Thrush. — Rooert Browning. 
8 — Cuckoo. — William Wordsworth. 
9 — Eagle. — Alfred Tennyson. 
10 — Sandpiper. — Mrs. Celia Thaxter. 



PING PONG OR TABLE TENNIS. 

fHE newest and possibly we should 
add the most popular sport at the 
present time among the "smart set" is 
Ping Pong. It is capable of a variety of 
movements and necessitates close watching 
in order to become skilled. 

The people of England have gone 
a daft," using a term that is more expres- 
sive than elegant, over this game, while 
the people in the larger cities of this coun- 
try are not far behind. 

It is played the same as Lawn Tennis, 
and the same rules are observed, with a 
few exceptions to adapt it for use on a 
dining-room table. It involves almost as 
much exercise, and possibly a little more 



skill. One thing is sure — if you play 
Table Tennis well, you can't help playing 
Lawn Tennis well, although a good Lawn 
Tennis player may not, necessarily, be a 
good Table Tennis player. 

The game can be played on a dining- 
room table of any size ; 9 by 5 feet is the 
official measurement, but you can have 
just as much fun on a table either larger 
or smaller. 

The height of the net is six and three- 
fourths inches. The height of the table 
from the floor should be 2 feet 6 inches. 

The posts should stand out 5 inches on 
the outside of the table. The table should 
be painted dark green, with a three- 
fourths-white line around the edges. 

Rules. — The game is for two players. 
They shall stand one at each end of the 
table. The player who first delivers the 
ball shall be called the server, and the 
other the striker-out. 

At the end of the first game, the striker- 
out shall become the server, and the server 
shall become the striker-out, and so on 
alternately. 

The service shall be strictly underhand 
and delivered from behind the end of the 
table. 

The ball served must drop anywhere on 
the table-top beyond the net, and is then 
in play. If it drop into the net or off the 
table, it counts to the striker-out. THERE 
IS NO SECOND SEEVICE, AS IN 
LAWN TENNIS. 

In serving, it is a let if the ball touch 
the net in passing over. 

If the ball in play strikes any object 
above or around the table before it bounces 
on the table-top itself (net or post ex- 
cepted), it counts against the player. 

The server wins a stroke if the strikcr- 
out fails to return the service, or return 
the service or ball in play off the table. 

The striker-out wins a stroke if the 
server serve a fault, or fails to return the 
ball in play, or return the ball in play so 
that it falls off the table. 

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top it is in play, and can be taken at half- 
volley. The striker-out loses a point if he 
takes the ball on the volley. 

On either player winning his first 
stroke, the score is called 15 for that 
player; on either player winning his sec- 
ond stroke the score is called 30 for the 
player; on either player winning his third 
stroke, the score is called 40 for that 
player; and the fourth stroke won by 
either player is scored Game for that 
player, except as below. 

If both players have won three strokes 
(40 all), the score is called deuce; and 
the next stroke won by either player is 
scored advantage to that player. If the 



same player win the next stroke, he wins 
the Game: if he loses the next stroke, 
the score is again called deuce, and so on 
until either player wins the two strokes 
immediately following the score of deuce, 
when the Game is scored for that player. 

The player who first wins six games 
wins a set. 

The Game may also be scored by points, 
twenty up. The players, in this case, 
change the service after every five points 
scored, like "Overs" at Cricket, and they 
set three at (19 all), the player who first 
wins three strokes winning the game. Best 
of three games counts. 




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